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no.221

Skating on Ormsgill reservoir

Early 20th Century

Lots of people enjoying the ice on Ormsgill North reservoir (north of Wilkie Road) with P Hodgson & Co’s Soap and Candle Works in the background with The Ormsgill Hotel faint to the right. More people on the banking watching. Few ice-skates in evidence.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2012

no.221

Skating on Ormsgill reservoir

Early 20th Century

Lots of people enjoying the ice on Ormsgill North reservoir (north of Wilkie Road) with P Hodgson & Co’s Soap and Candle Works in the background with The Ormsgill Hotel faint to the right. More people on the banking watching. Few ice-skates in evidence.

Location: Ormsgill North Reservoir, Ormsgill, Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/153
Sankey Number: 221

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