Did Anyone See Last Nights Program On The 62 / 63 Winter ?

[Walker570]

BUT   BUT  BUT  !!!!!!!!!      The media says we will get minus 3 maybe minus 4 tonight and this weekend .....  PANIC   PANIC   PANIC!!!!!!

Hot aches....do any of you remember those? When your hands and fingers got so cold that as they started to warm up they would ache with a vengiance.

I've just tipped a larger than normal front end loader full of logs by our back door, which are now stacked alongside both log burners.   Hope this crisp weather stays till the end of January, no better weather for shooting.

[Jim Neal]

I think it's time to leave this little gem just here....

 

[discobob]

I wasn't even a twinkle then. The ones I remember are:

76(ish) I bunked off school (juniors) and had to hang around until the time I would get home from school - I remember crying as the heat came back into my hands...

somewhere around 78 when a science teacher made a big block ice to show the effect of pressure and melting points - seem to recall that he had introduced some salinity into it as well.

Early 87, in Germany, Flying Falcon -27 degrees - I got frostnip on my ears and a RCT fella lost several toes. As others have said having to light fires under the fuel tank of the Bedford even with a Kero mix in them....We had comms wagons (Ptarmigan if anyone knows them) with aircon units but they had froze solid on the initial deployment and never defrosted - but we had to keep them on blasting freezing air all the time

The winter of 95/96 when we came back from Cyprus - the summer had been glorious - then we had snow every month of 6 months (around Brize Norton/Cotswolds)

There was one a few years ago, where all the snow from the town got dumped in a lane just up from us and that was there for months. Love to see what they would do now as they have built 250 houses up there now!!

[DUNKS]

Remember it well. We had just bought our first house and many of the inside walls had frost. Could only afford to heat one room.

[amateur]

The 62/63 freeze probably saved my life.

I was home from boarding school for Christmas and was due to return in early January, but the school's pipes had frozen and burst, so they delayed our return for two weeks.

Meanwhile, I was suffering from a raging thirst and had gone off my food, an instant warning sign to my mother, who took me to the doctor.

Type 1 diabetes was diagnosed and I was quickly ambulanced to a hospital 20 miles away to stabilise the condition.

My dear mum drove to visit me every day over the snowbound roads, even though, at times, she couldn't see the road and once followed a lorry, but stopped just before she ended up in the ditch that he drove into.

Had I returned to school, I doubt that Matron would have picked up my symptoms until I had lapsed into a coma!

 

[derbyduck]

23 hours ago, harrycatcat1 said:

I remember this period even though I was only 6 nearly 7. We didn't have central heating until the "modernisation" so the only heating was a coal fire. The inside of the bedroom windows had thick ice on them for ages. We only had a downstairs toilet with a little oil lamp under the pipes to stop them freezing.  My dad complained because he used to have to light fires under the deisel tanks on the lorries as he was the transport manager.

Those were the days 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I remember it well Harry , red road lamp hung in the outside loo , sledging down Boythorpe Rd because the traffic could not get up or down it! and folks skating on the Queens Park lake, one of the lads broke his ankle trying to skate , yes this New climate change is going bring some bad weather !

[marsh man]

20 minutes ago, derbyduck said:

I remember it well Harry , red road lamp hung in the outside loo , sledging down Boythorpe Rd because the traffic could not get up or down it! and folks skating on the Queens Park lake, one of the lads broke his ankle trying to skate , yes this New climate change is going bring some bad weather !

I thought you were going to say the cars couldn't see to get up the slopes as someone had nicked all the Red road lamps 

We had some ole photos not long ago in the local paper from the 62 / 63 Winter , one of them was a bar b q being held in the middle of the river Yare in Norwich that was frozen over solid and a few miles down the river at Cantley where ditchman used to live there were three small coasters ( steam boats ) that were stuck in the ice for three weeks .

In my ole boss's office he had a photo where he drove his Land Rover across a lake he owned as the ice was that thick .

[derbyduck]

1 hour ago, marsh man said:

I thought you were going to say the cars couldn't see to get up the slopes as someone had nicked all the Red road lamps 

We had some ole photos not long ago in the local paper from the 62 / 63 Winter , one of them was a bar b q being held in the middle of the river Yare in Norwich that was frozen over solid and a few miles down the river at Cantley where ditchman used to live there were three small coasters ( steam boats ) that were stuck in the ice for three weeks .

In my ole boss's office he had a photo where he drove his Land Rover across a lake he owned as the ice was that thick .

I had some good bags of bream from the Yare when visiting the Broads , that was a very hot summer and a poor little girl died when a screw top pop bottle that she was holding exploded and a shard of glass pierced her hart ! 

[marsh man]

16 minutes ago, derbyduck said:

I had some good bags of bream from the Yare when visiting the Broads , that was a very hot summer and a poor little girl died when a screw top pop bottle that she was holding exploded and a shard of glass pierced her hart ! 

There are some very large fish lurking about on the Broads , When you get time have a look on the The Norfolk Broads Forum and there is a photo of a very large Pike caught on Hickling Broad in 2010 that weighed 42 lb 8 ozs , very sad story of the little girl died while holding a pop bottle , similar when a little girl died just a few miles down the road while having fun on a bouncy castle , the wind lifted it up in the air with her still on it .

[derbyduck]

18 hours ago, marsh man said:

There are some very large fish lurking about on the Broads , When you get time have a look on the The Norfolk Broads Forum and there is a photo of a very large Pike caught on Hickling Broad in 2010 that weighed 42 lb 8 ozs , very sad story of the little girl died while holding a pop bottle , similar when a little girl died just a few miles down the road while having fun on a bouncy castle , the wind lifted it up in the air with her still on it .

thats one of the things that stuck in my memory of the Broadland pubs the large Pike and Perch in glass cases and most had a Stuffed Bittern in the corner !

i'll have a look on that Forum M.M. thanks

[harrycatcat1]

23 hours ago, derbyduck said:

thats one of the things that stuck in my memory of the Broadland pubs the large Pike and Perch in glass cases and most had a Stuffed Bittern in the corner !

i'll have a look on that Forum M.M. thanks

Off subject but did you see/hear pinks over your house going west about 5 minutes ago 🤔 

[derbyduck]

20 hours ago, harrycatcat1 said:

Off subject but did you see/hear pinks over your house going west about 5 minutes ago 🤔 

No I didn't Harry, but I did hear some whilst on a shoot up Barlow  saturday morning ,there was a good few by the sound of em but it was misty , and bloody cold !

[Yellow Bear]

35 minutes ago, derbyduck said:

No I didn't Harry, but I did hear some whilst on a shoot up Barlow  saturday morning ,there was a good few by the sound of em but it was misty , and bloody cold !

Also from sound only due to low cloud/fog , heard quite a lot about near Ashover (to/from Ogston I suspect.) whilst walking dog.

[harrycatcat1]

16 minutes ago, Yellow Bear said:

Also from sound only due to low cloud/fog , heard quite a lot about near Ashover (to/from Ogston I suspect.) whilst walking dog.

😉👍

[derbyduck]

37 minutes ago, Yellow Bear said:

Also from sound only due to low cloud/fog , heard quite a lot about near Ashover (to/from Ogston I suspect.) whilst walking dog.

were they also Pinks that you heard YB ? 

[Yellow Bear]

3 minutes ago, derbyduck said:

were they also Pinks that you heard YB ? 

Both pinks and canadas

[derbyduck]

1 minute ago, Yellow Bear said:

Both pinks and canadas

Thats good to hear that we have some pinks stopping over in the Shire .

[steve s×s]

On 08/12/2022 at 17:42, marsh man said:

I found it very interesting with all the old footage from one of the worst winters in living memory , the only downside was Mr C Packham was part of the program , it started on December the 22nd and apart from three days where there was a slight thaw it continued freezing cold till nearly March , it was stated that when the severe Winter finally surrendered that half of the country's bird life had perished , parts of the sea froze over and a lot of the inland waterways and rivers froze solid to the extent where you drive a motor over lakes and rivers , when it finished the presenter said with all the extreme weather we get that another winter like the above could certainly happen again .

Didn't have to watch it, seen it as a 10 year old 

[marsh man]

25 minutes ago, steve s×s said:

Didn't have to watch it, seen it as a 10 year old 

Still worth watching Steve , as a ten year old you can look at life totally different as from a grown up who is trying to keep a family fed and staying warm in those sort of conditions , I was only 15 and didn't really consider how hard it was for my dad to bike to work and for my mother to look after six of us and walking to work to do a part time job , still we pulled through and still here to back on that record breaking Winter .