ANY ONE FOR SNOWBALLS?

[Keith at Tregenna]

Keep searching for Bolton Stan:

What was his wifes name? so far no joy.

K.

[Keith Moody]

as a youngster i remember the snows of 1947, i was living in Dover and with the hills around it was only natural that my dad made me a toboggan which even had metal runers although the rest was made up with lots of old wood. that was the only winter i ever used it.
like Brian, our clothing was short pants old grey pullovers, a tatty school bazer, long socks which were always needed darning and realy scuffed shoes these were used for school, sports and everyday use. how we kept warm i will never know,
by 1963 I was married with one child and another on the way, our flat was a council place on the secound and third floor of an old victorian house, the flat below us was empty. that year the gas pipes froze and we had to leave that place and move into my mothers place for 2 weeks just to keep warm and until the council thawed out the frozen pipes for us. rent for that place then was 25 shillings a week, our heating was a coal fire in the front room with an oil heater at the other end of the room just to keep one room warm. no heating in the kitchen, bathroom or any of the 3 bedrooms.
the only other place i have been as cold was here in Winnipeg, i arrived here last night at 10pm to a tempreture of -31 ( no wind chill) having 6 hours before left the Dominican Republics tempreture of plus 32 , this suntan will not last long.
keith moody
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[Lou Barron]

I have just recieved a EM from my daughter who lives Teddinton London and she said the only people who are liking the snow is her kids .Nothing strange in that when our kids was growing up and we had snow it was wet clothes and socks then having cold hands . Then telling me to shovel the snow of the driveway so i would give the shovel to my wife then i would have to do a runner

[happy daze john in oz]

Ah Richard, 1947 was a lot colder than 1963, especially when you have very little gear on and bare legs in a mile long qeue in the snow with old men dying of cold next to you. And the boil on your bum has just burst. Life was a misery then.
Happy Days.
Brian.

Boil on your bum, and now you have one living next to you, a bum that is. Maybe if you boiled him................................ he might burst LOL

[happy daze john in oz]

Records show that the UK gets a bad winter about every 16 years with a really bad one about every 30 or so. 1963 was the worst I can recall, but did only see a bit of it. The snow began to fall Boxing day and was still there at the end of April. Thankfuly I missed most of it being with UCL at the time. Mum had a coal fire but could not get coal as most was frozen in the trucks. Dad managed to get some wood from a farmer friend or they would have had no heating at all.
If I remember the few days of it I experienced it was colder than up in Lulea in late November.

[Glenn Baker]

I remember that 1963 Winter, and I never forgot it, the only other Cold place i hated in Winter was Halifax Nova Scotia.
I made up my mind I was going to migrate to Warmer Climes, better wages and Im pretty certain it was easy to put a deposit on a house, if you held a weekend job driving cabs etc in Oz.The mind was made up no frozen Winters ever.

Even when I shipped out i kept a cunning Geographical plan that assured me I shipped to warmer climes, including the Caribbean.
The fish and chip shops of Shields never attracted me to trying any of Ropners or Ships of the frozen north. Glenn