Lightning

Grid reference: SJ291539
Co-ordinates: 329135, 353962
Bearing: ESE

If you want spectacular, how about this?

It was taken by Mr. Ted Jones from the window of one of the houses built on the slope leading up to Offa's Dyke at 12:35 a.m. on the morning of 1st July 1952, looking North East.

You can see the (then new) prefabricated houses in the left foreground. They were still there over fifteen years later.

It's a photograph which has amazed all who have seen it. In the original, one can plainly see four strokes in the main flash. You can also see other, smaller strokes on the left of the picture. A remarkable achievement.

© The estate of the late Edward Jones