Winter doom and gloom

[Jimny14]

Wow, good memories everyone. Good thread to put a few rough ages to a few names. I don't remember the winter of '63 but that's probably due to not being born until the long hot summer of '83.

[Lumpy]

Well, if 63's winter was caused by the eruption of the Bali volcano ash entering the atmosphere the science bods think that a major eruption is iminent.

I think I'm going to keep a watch on what happens, take Pen's advice on the weather (as normal) and start buying a few extra bits and bobs to shove in a 'just in case' box.

[Nannysally99]

I have memories of cardboard box sledding down a local hill. The shops across from it were inundated with 'got any empty boxes mrs' requests.
Would never happen now. That hill was on the other side of the estate, no worries about where we were, only went home when hungry.
Them were the days

[lottie dolly]

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

Me neither,we were to young to bother what happened in 1 particular season,that is beyond snow in winter and sun in summer.

[Nicos]

Funnily enough my mom has loads of photo slides (slowly turning pink) from about that time...mostly Xmas and birthday gatherings, but there are a heck of a lot of my brother and me tobogganing and making snowmen....maybe that was that particular winter?

[Cadalot]

BBC The Big Freeze of 1963 Remembered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXxRcqmrkQ

[Guest]

I wasn't about in 63 (or quite a few years after that) but we must be due a proper winter. Almost been here 5 years and my girls haven't played in snow yet.

[veggiechicken]

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learnin...severe-winters

[Potstubsdustbins]

One of the troubles now a days is the standard of driving, a lot of folks have never driven in snow and have a laissez faire attitude toward it which certainly doesn't help, it would seem to me they only know about the accelerator and brake this leads to numerous shunts and even worse.

We have for some years not bothered to go out to work if it snows, it's just not worth having the van in the shop for two weeks for repairs.

One memory of 63 sprang to mind earlier the number of outside WC leaks we had that year. We would finish work for EMGAS and be of mending loos for a price of course, for a couple of hours, the stores ran out of plumbers metal so we ended up buying that from the merchants which was a pain. Still it paid for a cracking holiday in the summer sea cliff climbing down in Cornwall.

[rary]

Potties reminisces brought a memory back to me I worked at the local furnaces where if you moved more than six feet away from the furnace it was perishing the drinking water was a pail hanging at the side of a tin sheeting shelter and you had to break the ice that formed in the pail to get a drink, and believe it or not the furnaces was the coldest place I had ever worked

[Jay-ell]

My gran had a different theory on why the 63 winter was so cold and snowy.

Darned Sputnik

[roitelet]

I remember the winter of 63. Working in London and commuting by train. Never knew if you were going to get there and freezing on the station. Mini skirts were the fashion worn with long boots. It was the bit in between that suffered!

[burnie]

Snowing here this morning, trip to Perth cancelled till tomorrow.

[Jay-ell]

It's sowing now. VC it's all your fault. Yours and Sputniks.

[chris_m]

It's sowing now. VC it's all your fault. Yours and Sputniks.

I'll leave my sowing until it gets a bit warmer