Cycling on the Thames

[ianrauk]

Some great pics here from the big snow fall of 1962-1963.
Check out picture number 3.. bleedin' looney!

 

[Globalti]

I remember some great sledging in 1963, I was 7 years old. I remember helping to push stuck cars and the relief when the snow did eventually melt. The funny thing is that even though we had no central heating and I can remember scraping ferns of ice off the inside of the bedroom window, I can't remember ever feeling cold as child.

 

[accountantpete]

I was 6 at the time and remember spending an hour cutting a path through the 4' snow to our front gate before realising that I couldn't go anywhere as everywhere else was the same.

So it was back to bed with a hot water bottle.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Great pics!

I wasn't born then so don't remember a great deal about it. Funny though I recall my dad telling me about the snow in 1947 but not 1963 - was '47 worse than '63?

 

[Paulus]

I wonder how long it was before he came off the bike? I was 6 in '63 and remember well helping my dad to clear the snow from the garden path and the path outside in the road. Not many people clear the pavement outside their house anymore I am one of the few down my road to do it.

 

[numbnuts]

I remember 63 I was 12

 

[Aperitif]

Great pics!

I wasn't born then so don't remember a great deal about it. Funny though I recall my dad telling me about the snow in 1947 but not 1963 - was '47 worse than '63?

No. Your Dad had discovered pubs then beer by then, Ed! I remember being smallish then, and tunneling in the snow. All the phurnod was stored in the coal bunker and I was an intrepid tunneler!

Naughty! tunneller - two ls

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I remember being smallish then, and tunneling in the snow. All the phurnod was stored in the coal bunker and I was an intrepid tunneler!

I knew teef was pastis sell-by date.

 

[Firestorm]

The white out of 63 was the reason for the formation of the Pools Panel as well.

I was four and I have vague recollections of going into the back garden and the snow being so deep it went over the top of my Wellies , filing them up.

I don't think I stayed in the garden long....

 

[dellzeqq]

it was a horrible winter. We had a new baby in the house, and there was ice on the insides of the windows - not just at night, but all through the day as well. I remember lying in bed with my head under the blanket and my arms by my side, having worked out that the less I spread myself out the warmer I would be.

 

[Corvette chic]

I love all the pictures Ian. No gloves, snoods or bleeding scarves for the football players then - I think some of them played in short sleeves too!

We had 3 days off school because the pipes froze but they were real thick cast iron pipes! No I can't remember feeling cold and you couldn't see out of the bedroom window for the beautiful ice patterns. My mum had to drag my little brother around in a sled as the pram couldn't get through the snow

 

[ChrisKH]

I remember 63 also; a great deal of pain and squashing and then very bright sunlight followed by warmth and warm milk.

I don't remember the weather much, as I slept through a lot of it but I'm told it was a good and bad year in equal measure.

 

[Archie_tect]

I was 4... just remember starting school in January and walking through the snow up the hill to the primary school in a large red duffle coat and wellies.

....we used to take it in turns to run and skid along long ice slides in the playground- took ages to get just right!

 

[Globalti]

This is a great little film: http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/films/snow.html

Or straight from YouTube:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI&playnext=1&list=PLE9B105B4D5FC67B9&index=1


Amazing shots of blokes actually doing some work, not sitting in the crewbus and moaning.

 

[benb]

Odd. I was 7 or 8 but I don't remember it at all.
Or at least, I don't remember it being unusally snowy.

ETA: I'm an idiot - ignore me. I wasn't even born then!!