The Big Freeze
The Big Freeze. A building firm in Leeds in January 1963. Snow fell on Boxing Day and has not thawed, the ground is frozen too hard to dig, and concrete will…
Frozen a foot down. The wages are due on Friday.
A building firm in Leeds in January 1963. Snow fell on Boxing Day and has not thawed, the ground is frozen too hard to dig, and concrete will not set. Every site has stopped, your men are laid off or standing idle, and the stage payments stopped with the work.
- Starts
- January 1963
- Length
- a year
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Scored on
- Still trading at the end
- Business
- Construction
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