Winter 1962

Britain suffered one of it's worst winters in 1962/63 and this short clip shows how severe it was. The Shadows provide the background tracks to this clip and Brian Matthews introduces their biggest ever hit -'Wonderful Land' which stayed at number one through March to May of 1962.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shadows
• Wonderful
• Land

[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]

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

[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.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

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