Gallery: Incredible archive photos show Shropshire people dealing with cold winters of the past

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Gallery: Incredible archive photos show Shropshire people dealing with cold winters of the past
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Take a look back through the Shropshire Star archives to see how generations of people in the region have battled through the snow and ice.

Shrewsbury postmen Roy Millward, Trevor Titley and Martin Tudor are caught by the morning snow showers , November 1980

Of course snow can be a real difficulty when you have somewhere to be, and there have been many examples of main routes – even the M6, M5 and M54 – blocked and motorists stuck for many hours at a time. A Christmas card scene in Llangollen town centre when shoppers had to trudge along snow covered pavements, December 1981Snow shovelling at the Quarry, Shrewsbury, February 1966

Council workers clearing snow in the Quarry, Shrewsbury, from left; John Lucas, Barrie Wilkinson and Ian Brearley, January 1987A short, sharp snow storm soon turned the countryside around Market Drayton into a Christmas card scene, November 1972

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