Snow fields

Cold and snowy but not as bad as the big freeze of 1963. For those of you that weren't there the snow fell on boxing day 1962 and was still there at the end of February 1963. It was so cold that the rivers and the sea around the coast froze and thousands of miles of roads and rail lines were impassable for weeks. I was 14 at the time and had to brave temperatures of -15 every morning at 6am to do my paper round. The majority of houses did not have central heating and so most people relied on a single fire in their living room for warm and perhaps a paraffin stove in the kitchen. No electric blankets either all you had was a hot water bottle to warm you in a freezing bed room! Happy days? I don't think so .