winterwatch 1963

[st3vi3]

Watching this on tv at the min, just amazing how quick things can go down hill from food, oil, gas. Basic supplies get stopped even water. Anyone watch this or read about it? Its really good

[12mp82]

I was just 4 months old back in 1963, I look back at some of the old photo's and feel glad I didn't have to deal with it. My Mother remembers snow drifts back in the late 40's early 50's that were higher than the double decker buses because of the wind up the hill to the road

[short circuit]

I was born 1962 so I sort of remeber the cold winters... 6 foot ice hanging of roof and upstairs windows and 1/4 inch of frost inside your bedroom window on a morning in the old tarran house rushing down to draw the coal fire before dad got back from night shifts...life was diffrent back then everyone was in the poor boat with you, most grown food in there back gardens and flowers to the front. we had nothing only pride.
Yes snows was deep back then 6 to 14 foot snow drifts where normal and summers where hot.

[poppypiesdad]

Was a really eye opener, setting a fire under the coal trucks to soften the coal,national grid not coping ,but the funniest was the two oap's that were fine on Dartmoor , with the supplies dropped off by the RAF , but got fed up with each others company and asked to be taken out.

[Arzosah]

That bit was funny, wasn't it

I have a few memories of it - I remember walking through the local park towards the River Mersey, and there was ice from shore to shore - anyone who knows how fast the Mersey runs will understand how bad it must have been for it to do that! Must ask my mum if we had power cuts then, and what on earth we *did*.

The pictures were sobering tho - fighting to get food out of the frozen ground, cars buried in snowdrifts. Really makes you think.

[st3vi3]

i never saw it all but did see the two old woman looked crazy back then. i remember say 10 15 years ago good snow and good summers. if the Mersey froze over and the the sea must have been something.

[Brunel]

Just watched it on iPlayer - amazing they reported only 120 deaths. Today the majority of the UK population would grind to a halt without Heat Magazine, imagine how they'd be without central heating?!

[Arzosah]

Spoke to my mum tonight - she can't remember any power cuts, or food shortages during that winter. And the ice on the Mersey wasn't frozen solid, it was more like pack ice, she says.

I'm perfectly sure there were more than the 120 deaths officially attributed - they didn't call pneumonia "the old peoples' friend" for nothing.

[st3vi3]

Could be a long time before we ever see thay again me thinks

[NorthernWoody]

I caught up with it last night - amazing footage. I must ask my mum how it was for them.