“On the 27th of December, 1836, heavy snowfall accumulated on the chalk cliffs above the town of Lewes, in the UK…”
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:43 – Background
02:51 – The Lewes Avalanche
08:19 – The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► “Glass Pond” by Public Memory
► “Nocturnally” by Amulets
SOURCES:
► “The day Britain’s most deadly avalanche struck Lewes” by The Newsroom, published by Sussex World, January 2018. Link: https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/opinion/the-day-britains-most-deadly-avalanche-struck-lewes-1059198
► “Lewes avalanche disaster that left eight dead and families ‘buried alive'” by Thomas Fox, published by Sussex Live, January 2023. Link: https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/history/lewes-avalanche-disaster-left-eight-7974736
► “A Look at the History of Britain’s Extreme Winter Weather” by Rose Staveley-Wadham, published by The British Newspaper Archive, December 2020. Link: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/12/04/history-of-britains-extreme-winter-weather/
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Amazing, I have been a huge fan of your channel, watched every video, and showed multiple people your account and now you’re doing a documentary on the town I called home for the first 28 years of my life! How strange. Keep up the amazing work!
Imagine leaving your house to flee for your life, and then *Oh yeah, I have kids! Should probably bring them along too.
I mean, I wasn't there. It's just bizarre.
This is such a freak occurrence that even the narrator's voice-over (usually so measured and even) betrays notes of incredulity.
As always, thanks for the content. Am I crazy in thinking I recognize the background music as No Man's Sky?
You should do a video on the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake and landslide. 19 people are still burried under the landslide.
The bright side is the entire family went together. I’d like to go with my family instead of being left to grieve and miss them. At least they didn’t have to go through that. That’s about the only bright side I can find in this tragedy
"Hey, this big ass snow pile might crush younin your house and kill you"
"Yeah, but what if i catch a cold?"
Lot a times you screw yourself more than anything or anyone else.
Interesting fact about that pub? It was the first pub in the area to be designed / built / expressed entierly using 8-bit graphics.
I live not far from Lewes and visit there, and know exactly where this is. But I have never heard about this 😮
The thought of an avalanche in Sussex is just surreal. 😕
Your intro music is depressing
Cornice sounds like the name related to a part of a genital
Could you please talk about the Cooper pants factory fire of 1936. It was caused by the devastating 1936 Gainesville Tornado.
Thank you for such a straight forward, no nonsense telling of this tragic tale. Ive not heard of this disaster before.
Could you make a vídeo on The Niterói Circus fire in Brazil ? It has a fascinating history behind It.
I wish i could select your videos and choose to play all… i thought YouTube used to have this feature
Not only will the Workhouse as a shelter have been physically unappealing but it's very name would have sent shudders through locals, such was the horror and stigma of ending up in one. My grandparents town had a council run carehome -a nice place, recently modernised BUT the building itself, though "light and airy" was a few generations earlier the town Workhouse. And although it had closed by the time my grandparent's generation were growing up that is what they knew that building and location as, from THEIR parents and grandparents. And they knew the building as a place of shame, a place no one would ever want to end up. So no matter how nice the modernised building was when they were the old people needing care, to them it still had that shadow over it and they didn't like even visiting there, let alone being cared for in there. That stigma has long gone now, died out with the last generation who knew people who spokeof those places in hushed tones because they had seen them in operation…
Fascinating!
I don't understand why a woman would abandon her children at first.
So sad. It's easy to underestimate a threat you aren't used to.
Great work as always. Still hoping you might do a video on the Wellington Avalanche, the deadliest one in the United States. It knocked two stranded trains, a passenger train and mail train, off a mountainside into the valley below. Notable because of the efforts of the railroad company to clear the snow and get the trains out prior and the company manager on the scene took full responsibility for not getting them out in time.
Sad. Thank you.
Wow. What a freak accident.
My grandma was there. She often spoke of the bravery In the men and women involved in the rescue effort. Commendations to these courageous folk
Yep…..NO chance of this ever happening again based on climate change…….so Lewes is safe from any 20 foot snow accumulations.
You should do a video on the “Frank Slide”. It’s Canada’s deadliest rockslide.
County of East Sussex.
Sussex… if Tobi could talk
Richard Vobes on YouTube covered this story in an old video, too.
I was in Lewes when Kevin Bacon was filming an EE advert in the town.
My local pub for 15 years . My nan was born in that boozer
Although the channel title might be at first interpreted otherwise, I appreciate the sensitivity and circumspection with which you handle the telling of these tragic stories. Well done 👍
I used to go to college here! I've never even heard of it! Crazy how multiple people died and yet it's seems to never be mentioned
We have several avalanches every Sunday afternoon up here in the welsh valleys with all these mining tips Mrs Jones do use them as a mode of transportation since investing in that surf board
Your voice, I'm addicted to it. I would follow you to college if you were a professor.
Where are you from, England?
Love the accent mate. Glad your channels blowing up.
Ok whats that new tune, I need to know
I only live a few miles from Lewes and had not heard about this, many thank for this piece of history
Helping/paying for a funeral for someone else is such a gift to families who cannot do so for themselves
The mid roll ads have to stop!!!!!!!!!!!!! Put them at the start
An avalanche in England? I never would have believed such a thing was possible. As for people not leaving their homes, well, if you had no experience with an avalanche, how would you know what to do? If someone moved to North America and had never experienced a tornado, how to convince them they need to take shelter?
This isn't a disaster. It's the result of roaring stupidity. They were warned. God fucked 'em for not listening.
Me when I heard the intro:Wait what? did some massive as fuck blizzard occur or something?
The church plaque claims it was the church poorhouse. You say it was cottages. Which is it?
Yay , I live near Lewes in Brighton
Woooooo Brighton