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"The Big Freeze" 50 Yrs ago
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Budgie Rustler | Report | 6 Jan 2013 09:47 |
January 1963 coldest month of the 20th Century. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 6 Jan 2013 09:54 |
Remember it only too well... |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Jan 2013 09:55 |
I was still at Primary School. We've got a photo of me and a friend leaning against an iceberg, and I can remember seeing them float down the river Medway. |
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JustJohn | Report | 6 Jan 2013 09:58 |
Weather forecast is for it to be colder before next weekend :-( :-( |
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Guinevere | Report | 6 Jan 2013 10:11 |
It was freezing over Christmas and into the New Year. We were with my grandparents in Wales and my dad rushed home straight after Christmas, afraid our house would freeze up - which it did. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 6 Jan 2013 10:52 |
Yes remember it very well, no central heating and a 14 month old baby. Luckily had a big coach built pram which was pushed/dragged to the shops to get food. But we survived. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Jan 2013 11:08 |
Oooh yes, I remember it well. |
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 6 Jan 2013 11:12 |
I remember it too..........was so cold.....no central heating just more coats on the bed :-( |
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 6 Jan 2013 11:17 |
This is 1960's............ |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Jan 2013 11:41 |
Mr Magoo, the first clip (Scotland 1963)was when we had a train service |
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Sharron | Report | 6 Jan 2013 11:44 |
Uncle Bill was working on the farm and they were delivering the milk and bread on the tractors. |
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Harry | Report | 6 Jan 2013 12:18 |
A camellia was then considered an exotic plant. I had bought one and it was covered in frost and ice. |
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Sharron | Report | 6 Jan 2013 12:31 |
Doing better than mine then. |
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Budgie Rustler | Report | 6 Jan 2013 12:37 |
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BrianW | Report | 6 Jan 2013 13:19 |
I was in the sixth form and the school was 6 or 7 miles away by bus. |
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Merlin | Report | 6 Jan 2013 13:51 |
Brian, we were a Hardy lot then,just had to get on with it. |
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BarneyKent | Report | 6 Jan 2013 14:01 |
In East Kent it started snowing on Boxing Day. There was still snow piled up by the sides of the road at Easter. I had to drain the car radiator every night - the AA warned that anti-freeze may not work !!!!!!!!!!! . |
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JustJean | Report | 6 Jan 2013 14:08 |
I too remember it all, although I saw most of it out of the window of the maternity ward , I was in there for most of feb through to March waiting the arrival of my daughter, before I went into hospital I had been in bed at home , on doctors orders, having suffered three miscarriages, I was confined to bed, |
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Bernard | Report | 6 Jan 2013 14:15 |
I spent three weeks thawing out water pipes with a Generator. Some days I had problams to get home for snow drifts. Six AM untill nine PM most days. |
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VIVinHERTS | Report | 6 Jan 2013 14:20 |
I was nearly 6 and we had not long moved into a brand new council house. One coal fire to heat the the through lounge. My dad, being and electrician, fitted an electric fire in the bathroom. That was it - no central heating. Extra blankets and coats were piled onto our beds and we all had hot water bottles. |
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