Postcard showing the frozen River Exe
This postcard records the River Exe frozen solid in February 1917. The ice was so thick it was claimed over 100 people could stand on it. The image records women, children and men attempting to stand on the river.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 57/1972/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- cardink
- Common Name
- postcard showing the frozen River Exe
- Simple Name
- postcard
- Period Classification
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Date
- 1917
