The Big Freeze

[Bealman]

I would have been 11 at the time, but like Papyrus, I have little memory of it. I do remember making slides in the junior school playground, and load of snow falling on me from the roof of a shop, but that could have been any winter in the NE.

[paulbeckwith]

  i   don t   remember  it  .....  i  was  being  created        oops       paul

[geofff]

I lived in Slough and I spent the Xmas of 1962 in hospital for the removal of my appendix. I was allowed back to school , but had to take the bus (not allowed to ride my bike) and the snow was 2 foot around the bus stop area.

The GP came to see me a number of times when released from hospital and he was interested in my Tri-ang railway. Had a Jinty, Princess Elizabeth, Lord  of the Isles and  the Blue Austrailian loco. All disposed of years ago. Had the grey basic track  which at the time looked realistic.

[Bealman]

Was that the early Triang standard track which reminds me very much of Kato?

[geofff]

Was that the early Triang standard track which reminds me very much of Kato?

Hello

I have only used N gauge Peco track. I did a google search on "Triang grey track" and that brought up photos of the track that I had.

Regards

[Newportnobby]

I watched the programme at 05.15 this morning and found it fascinating. Of course, I only remember it from a 10 year old's perspective so it was all, fun, fun, fun at the time.
BR featured quite well as our vastly different road system ground to a halt so villages were cut off from buses etc. Luckily the Beeching cuts hadn't got a grip at the time so much of the rail network was still in place and stepped up to the (foot) plate. Steam was recalled to replace all those modern diesels whose fuel had frozen up!
As children we were unaware of the hardships suffered by the farmers with their livestock, and the effects of smog owing to the sheer number of household chimneys belching their filth into the air. Then there was the crazy 'Pools Panel' who just guessed at results of footie matches which never took place
Definitely a 'keeper' to watch again sometime.

[joe cassidy]

Reminds me of the 1981 freeze in the West of England/Wales.

I was in Swansea at the time. The M4 motorway was impassible for several days so we were cut off from the rest of the country.

In spite of the difficult conditions everyone remained in good spirits.

I remember people skiing in the streets of Swansea.

[dannyboy]

Like @Papyrus and @Bealman, I can not recall anything abnormal about the big freeze. I was 12 at the time, so will have been at secondary school. The school was a couple of miles from home and we lived at the top of a hill, so when the pavements and roads were icy, it could be fun! 

[joe cassidy]

graduates of unis have made some amazing differences to all our lives, but it seems TO ME that there is a culture of demanding uni degrees, rather than the old style training that used to work.
ie
student nurse, state enroled nurse, state registered nurse, etc.

now you need a uni course.

You are correct, graduates of unis have made some amazing differences to all our lives, especially in the fleid of medical science.

Maybe that's why nurses need more training today than they did 50 years ago ?

[guest311]

or perhaps uni's just need more money.

remember teaching hospitals ?

[Papyrus]

I'm not going to get involved in this particular discussion, but what is it doing in a thread about a TV programme on the big freeze?



cheers,

Chris

[guest311]

I was in Swansea at the time. The M4 motorway was impassible for several days so we were cut off from the rest of the country.

I'm guessing most of the welch considered that a bonus 

[The Q]

Opened my grandparents back door and the snow fell in on me.. Dad was just out of the RAF and we hadn't been allocated a council house yet.
Walking to school, in shorts,
School milk frozen so they left it by the radiator to defrost, by playtime when it was issued  it was warm and going off but you were forced to drink it.
Outside toilets the sitters half full of snow as it blew in.
The snow covered the white line down the middle of the playground but the teacher stood one yelled at you if a boy crossed to the girls side or the other way around.

Granddad was a ganger, so he was out clearing points, though the through line had already been cut pre beeching.

[Newportnobby]

Outside toilets the sitters half full of snow as it blew in.

Spelling error or an attempt to avoid the forum censor?

[woodbury22uk]

My wife used to tell the story of she and her siblings building a very large igloo. When the thaw came the igloo shrank gradually and she was convinced that it was her that was growing faster each day as getting into the igloo became more and more difficult.