That's not snow.

Just been watching the documentary about the " big freeze" of 1963. It lasted for 2 months.

The snow was so deep in some areas of the country, that the only way out of houses was to climb out of the upstairs windows!

It lasted longer still! In Surrey/Kent the snow started on Boxing Day 1962 and was still around at the beginning of April. In the countryside it completely filled lanes lined with hedgerows so that you could step straight on to the top of the 10ft. high hedges.

I'm old enough to remember 63!!

Graham, just checking to see if it was a typo, did you mean you're old enough to remember you're 63 or you're old enough to remember '63. ;-)

My mate in Wales says since it started snowing this morning all his missus keeps doing is looking through the window.

He added, if it got any worse he was gonna have to let her back in the house!

Sandy, in 1963 I was 10!

Sandy, in 1963 I was 10!

Ditto.

It was at the top of the hill where I live that the 2 people suffocated to death in their car. I remember my mother (who was a senior nurse at the hospital) being collected by a very ancient Austin champ to take her in.

My father worked for the GPO (British telecom nowadays), and went to work one day to fix downed telephone lines and didn't make it home for 10 days.

Sandy, in 1963 I was 10!

Graham (big year 2013!), you beat me by 2 years - I vaguely remember doing a lot of sledging cos we were living in Newcastle then

I'm old enough to remember 63!!

Me too! My vivid memory is getting up anxious to go out and play in the snow, getting dressed in shorts (no long trousers in those days), pullover, duffel coat and wellington boots, then stepping out of the front door, taking one step into the snow, and sinking in up to my 7 year old chest. I'd forgotten our front door had three big steps leading up to it - now the door opened to the level surface of the snow. The wellington boots filled up with snow and pulled off as I tried to take a step forward, and weren't retrieved until spring!

Ditto.

My father worked for the GPO (British telecom nowadays), and went to work one day to fix downed telephone lines and didn't make it home for 10 days.

Hey, my old dad was a GPO telephone engineer too!

So that's where he was...

I'm old enough to remember 63!!

So am I, just. I was three.

We were kept indoors coz if we'd gone out we might never have been seen again I guess.

In my teens I bet my mum wished she had let us out after all.

I'm old enough to remember 63!!

Me to a little 4 year old but still remember the icicles hanging from the gutter to the ground and snow deeper than me , could only play where my dad cleared the snow otherwise would never have been found till the spring .

No heating only one open fire and a paraffin heater those were the days.

And dads old Austin A40 never left the drive for weeks, water drained from engine and battery flat from the cold

It was a great time for me as an eight year old. Dad made sledges for me and my brother and we used them on the steepest field on our farm.

Not so good for the the farm though as the sugar beet could not be harvested and was ploughed in the following April.

Apologies 63 was a little before my time

Anyway back to snow and following Fridays fairly light covering; about an inch of so, it's currently receding fast with the temperatures now above freezing. However the forecast is not looking to good for the run to work in the morning, with a snow predicted here from the early hours Monday up till around lunch :S

Won't complain as long as it's 10 foot high outside the door at 7am and there no point at all trying to get to work

TP

Surely I'm not the only grandad here?! Yes, it snowed on Boxing Day in 1962; it was several days before I managed to reach the station and get in to work....

No Bri, I've got 2 grand children.

Followed a girl driving a white Fiat 500 tonight and it had a sticker on the back saying..."My other toy has a Willy"

I'm old enough to remember 63!!

I'm old enough to remember 1947 which was worse!

2" of frozen cream on milk bottles left outside, snow above the downstairs front windows of house, opened door into snowdrift above my head tunnelled out! Great fun for a kid but no idea about motoring as few had cars.

Oh. a pot on my broken leg as well.

Fred

I'm old enough to remember 1947 which was worse!

2" of frozen cream on milk bottles left outside.....

As I remember it, the cream was sticking up out of the bottle, with the pushed-out card lid sitting on top! Real 'iced'-cream. No skimmed milk in those days. Oh, and these were the old, wide-necked bottles; the later narrow-necked type shattered instead.

(Fred and Brian amble slowly away, to the quiet strains of the Hovis tune... :zzz: )

We must have been posh down in South Wales, as our milk bottles had silver paper tops, that the blue tits used to peck! They still got pushed up when frozen though!

63.

Dad had a Morris Minor kept in an asbestos garage down the back lane. Grandad was in hospital and to go and visit him we had to dig the whole lane out from the garage to the road. I'm sure I remember we were digging between the walls which were about 4' high and you couldn't see them.

In the New Year we went to visit friends in Brecon and the road from Merthyr across the Storey Arms Pass had been opened by the blower plough that week, but it was only single track with passing places and they had to continually plough it because the wind was blowing the snow back in.

The River Taff froze at the Cow & Snuffers bridge in Llandaff North, up from the weir, and was frozen in the city centre.

The sea froze at Penarth.

To clear the streets they had diggers loading the snow into lorries, who then went down to the Docks to tip it into the sea.

'63 - as a six year old living in central London, playing on the main roads and building snowmen on the same as there was no traffic to be seen for several days :think:

Its snowed solid since 8am this morning in Hertfordshire and only just starting to let up now!

A few photos from being behind the wheel for most of the day...

The new Nokians passed with flying colours throughout the day. It was interesting seeing not just a number of German saloons struggling but also some of the 'posher' 4x4's such as a merc ML and an Audi Q7. The Yeti simply drove round them and onwards up the hill on both occasions as they floundered at the bottom on, presumably, summer rubber.

Apparently that's the stuff heading our way, hopefully it's burnt itself out pretty much down there in picturesque Hertfordshire :yes:

TP

Is that a ford or another road?

Looks like you had a fun trip.

Apparently that's the stuff heading our way, hopefully it's burnt itself out pretty much down there in picturesque Hertfordshire :yes:

TP

I got up at 7.30 to go shooting and it was snowing then and is still falling now.

Good fun in the yeti, mud and snow through the woods to the shoot car park yeti just walked it (unlike 2 other 4x4s that needed a push on the snow to get them going summer rubber ). More fun on the way out , and I had a good score 59 out of 70 lovely morning in the snow all round