Oh,no!

[Jackdaw33]

It's snowing like the clappers here on Tyneside. First snow I've seen in 5 years. Hope this doesn't mean we are in for a hard winter.

[EDDIE51]

Anyone on here old enough to remember the winter of 1962 >1963?
3. The winter of 1962-63. From 'Getty Images'

The worst British winter of modern times was an icy monster. Also known as the 'Big Freeze of 1963' it remains one of the coldest winters on record in the United Kingdom. Only two winters in the UK have ever been colder. 1962-63 saw the coldest weather for two hundred years. At its height a 36-hour blizzard caused heavy drifting snow in most parts of the country.

I remember it well. We were stuck in the house for a few days with very little food and only a paraffin stove for heat and cooking electricity and gas had failed. But we survived .

[hereIam]

I was 12 at the time, but don't remember it. I remember a bad winter in the 80's (about 1984) as I lived in a flat and despite being centrally heated it was soooo cold ...

[EDDIE51]

^ My Uncle and Aunt lived in rural Herefordshire, they were stuck inside the house for a week with snow up to the bedroom windows !
They joked about it afterwards and said it was a good time, they cooked on a wood fire which was all they had. My uncle had to dig a path to the wood store.

[jno]

friends of mine went to stay with one of them's mother in a remote cottage in Wales in the early 80s. Blizzard hit. Everything cut off by several feet of snow. Mum died. They were with her body three days before a helicopter got to them.

[sapelesam]

I remember that 62/63 winter, it was so hot we spent all day in the swimming pool, Oh, we were living in Nigeria at the time.

[hereIam]

Blimey EDDIE, I just can't imagine snow that deep nowadays (in my neck of the woods anyway) and being stuck indoors too !!

[jourdain2]

I remember that Winter. We had an old oil-lamp that dad had found (note to self, 'find one')and huddled round the fire in one room. We lived. Bit worried now we are all-electric. As soon as the snow has gone I'm off to buy a gas bottle etc. so I can at least boil water and heat soups. (I've already bought the little camping hob last Winter.)
It's somewhat chilly here in East Riding.
I think we may be in for a hard Winter, definitely. I'm up-to-speed with candles and matches. :)

[Jackdaw33]

Although before my time, the winter of 1947 was apparently much worse than that of '63.

[237SJ]

I remember the harsh winter of early 1978. We were cut off and lots of animals died. The downstairs of our house was dark because snow drifts covered the windows. Helicopters were dropping bales of hay for the sheep. Unfortunately, it was lambing time so many lambs died.

[jourdain2]

Jack................1947 - My mum and dad moved into the house where I was born and grew up in Nov. 1946. There was no heating, apart from open fires downstairs and they had gas lighting. Water was, of course, boiled on the kitchen stove. I only found-out about what must have been a horrible time when I was 14or so.

I do remember, in the early '80s, having huge (AND I MEAN HUGE) icicles hanging from our eaves and going over to try to persuade my parents to move in with us (we had central heating) for a few days - their kitchen floor was covered by a layer of ice......but they refused.

[jourdain2]

On a lighter note, anyone remember when Winter fun was heating pennies to make patterns over the ice on the inside of the windows so you could see outside? My sister and I competed to make the best vistas!

[tonyav]

I remember the winter of 62 / 63, realy deep snow ( great for playing in as a small boy ) and many days off school yay.

[237SJ]

No. I do remember us sitting around a tilly lantern that we had procured from my Gran though. Those were the days