Winter 1962

[sparkygl0s]

I was 5 years old in early 1963. I don't remember this at all. We lived in Norfolk.

[dctim]

See, I dont know why people even bother trying in this weather?

[mitsupitsu44]

in the netherlands it was much the same with the winterweather as it was in brittain,we had the coldest winter of the 20th century that year( i was born 1 year later,so i missed this one) and eversince we did not had a severe winter like that anymore,at least here in holland.

[shrivel1]

I agree with people who say we've gone soft. I think this generation whinge far too much. Having said that though, in 1962/3 most people didn't have far to travel to work. My dad and all my friends' dads worked locally and could walk to work (most of our mums didn't go out to work). So I think we have to look at our lifestyles now and the things we have to do out of necessity which we didn't have to do then - travel long distances to work.

[drumcoltran]

Yes Ted, I totally agree with you. People have gone soft. My mother was still getting up every morning to kindle her coal fire right up until six months before she died at the age of 79 in 2004. Her generation endured childhood poverty, the privations of the war and the winter of 1947 and they worked damn hard all their lives. They absolutely put today's lot to shame.

[MrTedwise]

How come the country did not come to a stand still back then when it snowed!! oo yes we just got on with it , whats happened to folk :)

[MrOldbrummie1]

Are yes i remember it well. started on a saturday night just before xmas 1962.Went to SPRING HILL ICE RINK BHAM and came out at 1015pm to a foot of snow an so it stayed for weeks.I was 19 at the time and just started going out with a girl named BARBARA MORRIS and had to travel from Winson Green to Erdington to see her..how i walked in winkle picker boots with cuban heels i will never know.

The buses kept running and the the roads were cleared even tho we had temps below -15/20 for days and days

[closedcircle1]

Yes I find it surprising too. But I was born in it so I must remember it somewhere.

[MrCheljack]

I just found out that I was pregnant with my son, no buses no trains no traffic at all amazing, we lived in Bournemouth at the time of all this snow they couldn't get the snow ploughs out LOL

[MrOldbrummie1]

@MrCheljack MR cheljack quote "i was pregnant with my son" ive heard of miracles but thats amazing ???.

[glurbpot]

Many happy memories of the excitement the snow created. I was in my last year of Primary School and remember waking up to find that the eight feet deep cutting for the road to some of our more remote farm buildings was levelled with snow. The warmth and lovely aroma of the cowstalls. Walking to school in the tractor tracks because there were three feet drifts across the farm lanes. Watching the last of the piled up snow disappearing in late May. Happy memories, Lewes, East Sussex.

[MrStablelad]

I wonder how many people could put on Snow Chains these days. & im talking of the old one's, Also with no gloves on. ?

[DADRENO]

It's cold again Jan 2010 - our milkman has given up the fight with Tesco's plastic homogenized milk.

Roll on summer!

[ElsieTeacher]

My parents were married on 29th December 1962 and most of the wedding guests remained stranded in East Sussex for a week. So no, we didn't cope much better with snow in the past!!! Schools have to shut if teachers won't risk their lives to get there!!

[BradBrassman]

After the first fall of snow it froze real hard, you could walk along the hedges and my dad and uncle mick built me an igloo in the back garden.

[closedcircle1]

Winter 1962?  Yes I remember it. I was born in it at 12.40am in March.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@closedcircle1 find very suprising you can remember this winter seeing you were born in the march

[donthoneydont]

nice,nice,nice........

memories.....

[hastingsgal]

How lovely...before my time though!

[SirBasildeBrush]

Good to watch. Alas, I was too little to remember it...