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Commemorative drawing of the 1683/4 Frost Fair
1684
£5,500
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The Thames Frost Fairs
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Europe experienced several periods of cooling known as Little Ice Ages. Many factors have been proposed to explain these dips in temperature, and their effects were likewise manifold. One of the most well-loved and well-documented results was the phenomenon of the Frost Fair.