By registering with our site you will have full instant access to:
268,000 posts on every subject imaginable contributed by 1000's of members worldwide.
25000 photos and videos mainly relating to the British Merchant Navy.
Members experienced in research to help you find out about friends and relatives who served.
The camaraderie of 1000's of ex Merchant Seamen who use the site for recreation & nostalgia.
Here we are all equal whether ex Deck Boy or Commodore of the Fleet.
A wealth of experience and expertise from all departments spanning 70+ years.
It is simple to register and membership is absolutely free.
N.B. If you are going to be requesting help from one of the forums with finding historical details of a relative
please include as much information as possible to help members assist you. We certainly need full names,
date and place of birth / death where possible plus any other details you have such as discharge book numbers etc.
Please post all questions onto the appropriate forum
-
27th February 2018, 06:15 AM
#1
Snow
yes we have more than 2 inches of snow so the country will grind to a halt?? jp
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 09:24 AM
#2
Re: Snow
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.
-
Post Thanks / Like
Doc Vernon,
Bill Cameron,
Richard Quartermaine,
Dennis McGuckin,
N/A,
Bob Dunkley,
John Pruden,
happy daze john in oz,
Peter F Chard,
George,
Neil Morton,
Des Taff Jenkins liked this post
-
27th February 2018, 09:29 AM
#3
Re: Snow
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
Senior Site Moderator-Member and Friend of this Website
R697530
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 09:34 AM
#4
Re: Snow
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
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 09:38 AM
#5
Re: Snow
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
Last edited by vic mcclymont; 27th February 2018 at 10:52 AM.
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 09:47 AM
#6
Re: Snow
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.
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 10:23 AM
#7
Re: Snow
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
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 10:29 AM
#8
Re: Snow
Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
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.
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 27th February 2018 at 06:42 PM.
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 11:34 AM
#9
Re: Snow
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
Last edited by j.sabourn; 27th February 2018 at 11:35 AM.
-
Post Thanks / Like
-
27th February 2018, 11:57 AM
#10
Re: Snow
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
Last edited by Richard Quartermaine; 27th February 2018 at 11:59 AM.
Our Ship was our Home
Our Shipmates our Family
-
Post Thanks / Like
j.sabourn,
Keith Tindell,
Captain Kong,
Dennis McGuckin,
vic mcclymont,
Doc Vernon,
Bill Morrison,
happy daze john in oz,
donald w gillies,
George,
robpage,
Des Taff Jenkins liked this post
Tags for this Thread
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules