Cycling on the Thames

[CharlieB]

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I would've been about 5 - I have a vague memory of oodles of snow in the garden and not wanting to visit the toilet, because it was outside!
Never missed school though, because it was across the road.
Mind you, schools didn't get shut at the drop of a hat then on H & S grounds like they do today.

 

[Hover Fly]

I don't suppose that the railway company's have snow ploughs to bolt onto the front of a locomotive anymore. Nor sanders in order to help with grip on damp rails.

Strangely enough:-

 

[Brains]

I was 3 that winter.

I remember 'having' to go miles (well at least a mile) to the shop on a sledge, with my 18 month old brother in a carry cot on top of the sledge to get food.

Our Au-Pair in tears as she could not get home for Xmas, I didn't know adults cried.

The icicle as high as a house (looking at photos today it's still an impressive 2-3m)

The snowman that stayed until Easter

The upstairs loo freezing up

The emergency blankets arriving from my Grandmother who was in Kenya (I still have one)

My Dad trying to restore running water using a welder.
We eventually resorted to melting snow in a dustbin on top of the Aga and then straining it through a coffee filter

 

[Norm]

I was born in October '63, so I guess that you can blame that cold weather for me being here.

I love this image...

Other than that bridge being closed to traffic about a decade after that photo was taken, the buildings look pretty much exactly the same now.

 

[gary r]

My parents emigrated to the UK (from South Africa) in 1962,1963 was the first real winter they had experienced,my dad tells the story of him coming to England without a coat!It couldnt have been that bad they are still here nearly 50 years later!!

 

[gary r]

heres the football scores from boxing day 1963,wonder if the bad weather contributed to the crazy scores

Blackpool 1-5 Chelsea
Burnley 6-1 Manchester United
Fulham 10-1 Ipswich Town
Leicester City 2-0 Everton
Liverpool 6-1 Stoke City
Nottingham Forest 3-3 Sheffield United
West Bromwich Albion 4-4 Tottenham Hotspur
Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 Bolton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-3 Aston Villa
West Ham United 2-8 Blackburn Rovers

 

[Night Train]

63 was just a bit before my time.

My parents were courting in Harrogate then and I remember seeing photos of them as a youngish couple lobbing snowballs and piling snow on the car. Having come over from Hong Kong and China a year or so before I reckon it was quite a novelty for them.

 

[summerdays]

I was born in October '63, so I guess that you can blame that cold weather for me being here.

I love this image...

Other than that bridge being closed to traffic about a decade after that photo was taken, the buildings look pretty much exactly the same now.

I assumed you were of a similar age to me... I don't remember it ever having traffic on it... we tended to park on the Eton side and walk across.

 

[Norm]

I assumed you were of a similar age to me... I don't remember it ever having traffic on it... we tended to park on the Eton side and walk across.

The last car went across at 4pm on April 10th 1970, apparently. I remember traffic on it, I remember the concerns about it closing and the arguments about whether to repair or replace went on for a couple of years after it was closed. The relief road was, luckily, finished about 4 years earlier, or there would have been no bridge other than the motorway from Datchet to Maidenhead.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Other than that bridge being closed to traffic about a decade after that photo was taken, the buildings look pretty much exactly the same now.

Do you know, apart from them looking completely different I think you're right!

 

[summerdays]

The last car went across at 4pm on April 10th 1970, apparently.

I would have been about 3 ... so that will be why I wouldn't remmber it!!

My childhood memory of that area is that the road across the common was raised as the common would flood, and I remember sliding around on the ice knowing that it wasn't that deep below.

 

[subaqua]

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I would've been about 5 - I have a vague memory of oodles of snow in the garden and not wanting to visit the toilet, because it was outside!
Never missed school though, because it was across the road.
Mind you, schools didn't get shut at the drop of a hat then on H & S grounds like they do today.

no schools didn't get shut . mainly cos the teachers lived locally to the schools or if they didn't they could turn up at the school closest to their house and work there.

lovely having rose tinted glasses on isn't it