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Yesterday's Witness: The Great Blizzard of 1891

on BBC Two England

Eighty years later, West Country eye-witnesses describe "the gravest atmospheric disturbance of the century..." and the days that followed. Most of them were, of course, quite young and memories of 'terror and destruction' have largely disappeared. They remember more important things, like, 'It was seven weeks before we went back to school!' But the 'star' of the programme is Mrs Lilias Williams who remembers the Great Blizzard of 1891 very vividly, for she was already a young woman. On her last birthday she was 103!

Contributors

Interviewee:
Lilias Williams
Narrator:
Tom Salmon
Producer:
Stephen Peet

BBC Two England

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