Winter doom and gloom

[mothhawk]

The last time Mount Agung in Bali erupted was February 1963. Does anyone else remember that winter? (Those grapes who are old enough ) It was one of the coldest on record, I looked it up, with the sea at Herne Bay in Kent freezing for a mile offshore. I certainly remember playing in snow in the early part of the year, and the school milk having "lollipops" of frozen milk pushing off the silver tops and sticking out of the bottles.

I wonder if this winter will be as bad.....

[Lumpy]

Except for the casualities of such a winter..............................bring it on.

[lottie dolly]

NO THANKS send it away

[Small pumpkin]

Afraid that was 9 years before I was a twinkle in some blokes eye

[burnie]

Milk "lollies" I remember those, I'd just started at grammar school in '63, walking on frozen canals and generally doing daft things with snow, tried building an igloo and failed.

[Snoop Puss]

Crumbs, well remembered mothhawk. Hope it's not as chilly as that here. Last night we hit minus 8 ºC. The coldest we've ever had was minus 17 ºC. Hope it doesn't get colder than that...

[veggiechicken]

It was the right kind of snow in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI

[Greenleaves]

I would not wish 63 on anyone! It wasn't the amount of snow I remember just the really cold temperatures

[Thelma Sanders]

I don't remember much of that cold winter tbh. Only that my school year were booked on what used to be called a 'school journey' to Cornwall in Spring, it was touch and go whether we would actually be able to get there!
I remember the train journey with the snow banked up on either side of the track, in places it was higher than the train itself
The first part of the holiday was freezing, even in the hotel, and food wasn't abundant either because of all the shortages. Luckily my mum had packed a tin of cake
As the week progressed the weather improved, so we were able to visit some of the local sights and the journey home was snow-free

[Zelenina]

Yes I remember that winter. Brrrrrrr!! I was living in Surrey and the snow was still around at Easter.

Last winter was exceptionally cold here in Slovakia, in fact too cold to have much of the usual snow. It went down as low as -17C where I live, and much lower in other parts of the country. It's starting to get pretty cold again now. We could get snow in the next day or two, and a couple of nights down to -6C at the end of the week. Then the whole weekend below zero.

I wouldn't mind so much if my central heating was working. I'm waiting for some money that's due to me so I can replace the boiler, but it probably won't come until the middle of next month.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Remember it!!! not half.

Unlike some lucky people sat in their nice warm class rooms I was working for EMGAS.

16 years old and an apprentice gas fitter our mode of getting round the district was public transport (with bus tokens), the old butchers bike if you were lucky but mainly on foot.

My longest regular travel was by bus from Nottingham to Beeston showrooms then a 3 to 4 mile hike to Stapleford with a 45lb tool bag over my shoulder, no wonder we knew every short cut in the area.

[rary]

My some of you showing your age, and some not as old as I thought my self I was too young to remember it ( that was for the benefit of VC) I do remember that year the local loch was frozen over, and that was unusual as it was the warmest loch in Britain then, the inlet and outlet are at the same end and the local steelworks pumped hot water into it all the time,at the other end, the ice was so thick people could walk across it, I remember it was so cold when I had to walk home after seeing my girlfriend, I always missed the last bus, and of course the house could never be warm enough, as the source of heat was from one coal fire

[veggiechicken]

I don't remember the snow in 1963 at all! Maybe the constant sunshine had melted it

[JanieB]

I remember it. I was 15. My sister and I walked a friend home along a closed (by Beeching) railway line at dawn after a party my parents held. It was beautiful. The snow had frozen on the top and was pink in the dawn sun. There were the signs of all the birds and animals that had walked on the snow.

Another friend and her neighbours who lived at the bottom of a hill had groceries sledded down to them by local shops until the snow ploughs could get to them.

I went to a County grammar school in Marlborough and we couldn’t get there across the downs. Not for long though! My dad had just had central heating installed, bonus!

[Nicos]

I have a photo somewhere of me walking on the frozen sea in Blackpool.

I'd love a winter like that again....but Idon't have to go out to work and have the option of central heating and wood stove fires and enough food in to keep us going for weeks.

Those were the days of single glazing...one coal fire (in the lounge) in the house(also for heating a small tank of hot water)...hot water bottles....single glazing....

I think the same type of winter would affect us very differently these days....