THIS week we have chosen photographs from the digital archives of Pontypool Museum looking back at wintery scenes from Torfaen.

As January arrives, the cold snap often follows as temperatures drop with winter in full flow.

With the Coity Mountain between Blaenavon and Abertillery serving as the authority’s highest point, snow can often be found in the north of the borough when the chill hits home.

But snowflakes, depending on the temperature, fall elsewhere in the borough away from the tops of the valleys.

In one of the photos, the north entrance to Pontypool Park is laden with snow.

The park itself rises to a number of high points, including to its eastern side where the Folly Tower and Shell Grotto can be found.

In the other photo, snow lines the street in Old Cwmbran.

Across the whole of the UK in 1947, when the image was taken, snow fell with regularity between January and March as one of the coldest winters hit the country.

These images were donated by the Pontypool Museum as part of its digital archive, which aims to preserve historic documents, images and records from the area.

To find out more about the digital archive, contact the museum at pontypoolmuseum@hotmail.co.uk or call 01495 752036.

The Free Press thanks Pontypool Museum for allowing the paper to use these images.