The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Heavy snowfall in the Brendon Hills
The year starts with a chill, 1979 one of the coldest winters
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Overview
A JCB digger clears snow from a road in the Brendon Hills in Somerset. The blizzard hit on New Year’s Eve. The winter of 1978-79 is known as one of the snowiest on record. Many airports closed, roads were blocked and businesses brought to a standstill. For political reasons this winter is dubbed as the Winter of Discontent from a line in Shakespeare’s Richard III owing to widespread strikes by public sector trade unions.
In living memory, the winter of 1962-63 was known as the big freeze, with some of the coldest years in Britain being 1684, 1739-40, 1836, 1927-8, 1933, 1940, 1947, 1952-53.
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