DESPITE rising temperatures and a touch of spring, a snow-bound lane on the moors above Slaithwaite remains closed.
It is more than three weeks since Huddersfield was hit by the heaviest snowfall in 30 years.
A slow thaw has set in on the tops at Slaithwaite, but Meal Hill Lane is still covered in 3ft of snow.
Sarah Lewthwaite, who lives just off the lane, took pictures of daughter Lucy O’Donoghue, 11, in the snow on Sunday.
“Temperatures may have risen and there has been a slight thaw but the snow isn’t going anywhere quickly,” said Sarah.
Another resident, Richard Stott, of Tiding Field Lane, said the Sunday temperature may have reached 10ºC (50ºF) but the wind remained bitter.
“It’s quite remarkable that the snow’s still here,” said Richard. “But I suppose it’s the lie of the land.
“We have to be grateful this snow came in March and not January otherwise it would have been here for three months, not three weeks.
“After the weather we’ve had in recent years I don’t see how anyone doesn’t believe in global warming and climate change.
“How many more signs do we need?”
Meanwhile, the lingering snow in Slaithwaite brought back memories for former telephone engineer Peter Vincent, of Linthwaite.
Peter, 66, sent a picture of his GPO van negotiating the drifts in Shaw Fields Lane, Slaithwaite, in 1967-68.
“I must have been up there to repair some telephone wires and I was the first vehicle down after it was cleared,” he said.
“I recall there were 15 or 20 council workers digging the road out by hand.
“Large snowfall seemed fairly common place back then and it didn’t seem to stop things like it does today.”
