Calne in the snow 2018, Part 2

The first part of this photo adventure around Calne during the March 2018 snow 'event' is here to view. In this second part, we'll stay within the confines of Calne, the third part will venture a bit further out, looking at the white horse and Silbury Hill.

Looking up to the bell tower at St Mary's Church.

Another view of St. Mary's. In previous times referred to as the Cathedral of North Wiltshire, due to its size.

Calne's lovely Almshouses. Still in use and can be viewed during Calne's Heritage Week, each year.

The tower again, this time from the proclamation steps.

A closer look at proclamation steps.

The Calne Bike Show scaffold scultpure.

Chaveywell bridge.

Another view of Chaveywell bridge.

Calne in the snow 2018, Part 1

Overnight on the 17th of March, Calne had a good dose of snow from the 'Beast from the East'. While the snow was fairly light and powdery; it looked fantastic. I managed to get out early on the 18th and take some photos of Calne while the snow was fairly fresh.

By the afternoon, the roads were mainly clear and the scenes were quite degraded. Although this evening (18th), there has been a lighter scattering of snow. With the temperature expected to by higher tomorrow than today, I wonder if any of the snow will remain after Monday.

Hopefully you'll enjoy the photos below, with more to follow in the next post.

One of our wonderful new boundary signs.

Our pig sculpture created by Richard Cowdy.

Looking down the High Street, past our listed telephone boxes and towards the Town Hall.

Calne Town Hall.

Head sculpture by Rick Kirkby.

Looking up the River Marden from the library.

Looking down the River Marden towards the Town Hall on the left and the library on the right.

The Lansdowne Strand Hotel.

Looking up the River Marden from Castlefields. The tower of St. Mary's can be seen upper centre.

River Marden after the rain

After a night of quite continuous rain, the river Marden at Calne reached its highest level since December 2013, reaching a height of 0.88m. The river looked and sounded wild, which doesn't take much as it's normally quite a sedate river at this location. However, this height is still nothing to the highest recorded level of 1.07m on November 21, 2012 at 14:30.

Here is a 'before' photo taken in 2017, showing standard levels for the Marden at this point. The wave-effect seating was made by Alan Tilbury was very apt on this day!

The photographs below were taken when it was at its highest level today, around 10:00, 12 March 2018. They were taken by chance as we were visiting the library!

 Looking up river towards the Co-op, with the tower of Calne Free Church showing.

 Further along the same view. The tower of St. Mary's Church is right of centre.

 Looking down river now towards the Town Hall, the Lansdowne, and the library.

Further up river, the bridge celebrating Harris's bacon factories (number 6 on the blue plaque trail).