Walking on water in Kilcullen

Unless we get another Ice Age instead of global warming, it is unlikely that the scene in this picture will ever be seen in Kilcullen again.



The photo is taken from upstream of the bridge in Kilcullen, and shows people walking on the ice that covered the river to where the new Canoe Club building is now.

The picture was taken, by somebody unknown, in 1938, according to local lore from Pat Lynch and Jim Collins.

What made it possible, apart from the very cold winter of '38, was the existence of the weir just downstream of the bridge, which slowed the water flow enough for it to freeze.



The second picture has a lot of camera shake. It shows the river downstream of the bridge and up from the weir, and people can clearly be seen crossing on the ice there too.