Blue sky view, north to St Annes Pier, sand beach with white expanse of land-fast sea ice, Outer Promenade, St Annes, Lancashire
The winter of 2010-2011 included the coldest December since Met Office Records began in 1910. The mean December 2010 temperature was minus 1 degree Celsius. In some places the temperature was down to minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 F). Late November to Boxing Day 2010 included two spells of severe winter weather in the UK with very low temperatures and significant snowfall. The beach in and around St Annes, on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, displayed large areas of land-fast sea ice, several centimetres thick. A blue sky, sunny day view, looking north to St Annes PIer and old steamer jetty, of sand beach towards an expanse of white sea ice in front of the Outer Promenade at St Annes. St Annes Pier was opened in 1885. Fires in the 1970s and 1980s damaged the seaward end, which was demolished, so isolating the steamer jetty. Pleasure steamers, navigating the now silted-up North Channel of the River Ribble Estuary, picked up passengers at the steamer jetty. The North Channel is shown on maps from the 1890s.
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Location: Sand beach with expanse of land-fast sea ice, Outer Promenade north to the Pier, St Annes, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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