![]() In 1683-84 an entire street of stalls was set up on the frozen river, together with a press printing souvenir papers, one of which, entitled “A Winter Wonder of the Thames Frozen Over with Remarks on the Resort thereon” asked “ … ho’d believe to see revived there in January, Bartholomew Fair?”. ![]() ![]() On this day in 1434 a severe frost set in in London that was to last until the February of the following year, and the Thames froze over.įurther records indicate that in all the river froze over nearly forty times between 11, and that it became the site of impromptu “Frost Fairs” in 1564-65, 1683-84, 1715-16, 1739-40, 1788-14. ![]()
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