While my dad was out with The Power Jets team and their jet engine blasting through snowdrifts across Leicestershire.
Power Jets of Whetstone clearing snowdrifts in the severe winter of 1947
Nev Duncan and the local Littlethorpe lads dug a tunnel through The Narrows to create a passage through the snowdrift that blocked the road. At the Cosby Road end they built a roofed igloo. They enjoyed this for several days while of school.
Nev Duncans sketch of The Narrows as it was in the winter of1947.
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