Snow

[John Pruden]

yes we have more than 2 inches of snow so the country will grind to a halt?? jp

[Captain Kong]

Hi John
Six Inches of snow in Boltonistan, they call it Global Warming,

All my neighbour feel at home , it is like the Khyber Pass.

I have my Thermal Long Johns on like I wore in the Antarctic.

[Doc Vernon]

Keep nice and Warm lads!
Have you got the Skis out ! LOL

Wish it was all here really love the Snow and the Winters!
Hope this coming Winter we will get Snow again,we missed out last Year in Blackheath!
Cheers

[Keith Tindell]

We are supposed to be clobbered here in the South at the end of the week, i don't mind if we don't have to go anywhere, central heating turned up, and logs ready by the fire if we get power cuts, freezer full of grub etc. will check my neighbours when it arrives, i am the youngster here at 77, lol, kt

[vic mcclymont]

Are we turning into a nation of whimps? First sign of inclement weather trains and public transport curtailed. How does Scandanvia manage?
Schools close as the first clouds roll over.
How did we manage in the old days?
Vic

[Captain Kong]

We had some Bad winters when I was a lad,
1942 was a record winter, Very deep snow and big snow drifts almost covering houses, Winter lasted all winter then. as kids we made money snow shifting, knocking on doors and asking to shift the snow from in from of their houses.
1947,Was another BAD Winter, The Gas works had mountains of coke and were selling it at an old Nine Pennies a bag, take your own sack,
The queues were over half a mile long, thousands of people with prams, trollies and sacks .
An old man dropped dead in front of me with the Cold, and lay there for over an hour in the snow, No one had a phone then so could not phone an ambulance, They eventually came and took him away he was stiff like a piece of wood.
That was one terrible winter.

[Keith Tindell]

You cannot be too careful Vic, leaves on the train line can be dangerous, lol. I know we are always on about how tough we had it etc, but when i lived no more than 50 miles away from where i am now in West Sussex, we had heavy snow fall every year. We lived down a very narrow lane, and many times we could not get out for days, so there is no doubt that we are getting warmer, kt

[Bill Cameron]

We had some Bad winters when I was a lad,
1942 was a record winter
That was one terrible winter.

I remember the bad storms of 1947, we lived on a farm in the Carse of Gowrie Perthshire , my father was a ploughman and handled a pair of Clydesdale horses, most of the first few days of the storm, he and his steeds pulled more four wheeled vehicles up the hill. The horses had no problems with the snow.

[j.sabourn]

Was during those same storms that the Zephros a Greek freighter missed the Tyne Piers and landed in Cullercoats. Was rumoured that the Greek master mistook a new Belisha beacon for the South Tyne Pier, think it was a joke as us kids played on the wreck on the rocks, over the years it slowly disappeared, beforeI left the UK only the keel plates remained, when going back years later there were no signs at all that a ship had met its end there. JWS

[Richard Quartermaine]

On my second trip from Sydney to London on SS&A 'Raranga', before waiving my repatriation in 1950 and joining the London Pool, I arrived in London in October, 1947. It was not til the end of February, 1948 that they put me on the Aberdeen and Commonwealth SS 'Moreton Bay' back to Sydney. Never been so cold but was staying with my aunt and uncle near Ealing, met a girl from Teddington at Richmond ice rink and had the greatest time I could have wished for. Two years on the Aussie coast and I's of P and I was back. Merchant Navy - Bl**dy marvelous!!! 87 yesterday and it was everything I could have ever wished for.
Richard