The Tyne Hill Landslide
![People in snow](https://thesibfords.uk/sib2/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sibford-Scene-352-May-2013-snowdrift-300x176.jpg)
When looking for the date of the landslide on Tyne Hill shown (behind the many villagers viewing it) on the cover of last month’s Sibford Scene I came across photos of the heavy snow which immediately preceded the slide. As this year, we have had unusually cold and snowy weather in March. I was interested to see the date of the photos was March 28th 1916: so the landslide was shortly after with the snow melt. It completely blocked the Brailes road and it wasn’t cleared until the men came back from the Great War when it
![A group of people standing above a cliff](https://thesibfords.uk/sib2/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sibford-Scene-352-May-2013-landslip-head-300x176.jpg)
was shovelled into the field below. The buses had to go through Sibford Gower because of the blockage and they have done so ever since.