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Miss Norah Leary frozen to death in the snow, Mortimer Road

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Miss Norah Leary frozen to death in the snow, Mortimer Road
Sheffield_Midhopestones
14/12/1937
1920-1939
Fox Photographs Ltd.

Yorkshire girl, Norah Leary, aged 17, of Birch Road, frozen to death in snow on Broomhead Moors.Her body was recovered from a snowdrift on December 14th 1937 and taken on a sledge to Broomhead Hall.Picture shows rescue party going down Mortimer Road towards Ewden Beck and Broomhead Hall.

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