If you think 1963 was bad you should have been around in 1947 it started in January it snowed for 7 weeks day and night

It was a time when folk in our village helped each other - I was just a kid who helped stack logs and cleared paths - huge vats of stew - the smell of paraffin heaters - a much simpler time

Great shots, music not appropriate and too loud.

1963 I was 6. I recall the pipes burst and of course it was bloody cold. Pam, my late mum, told me that the 1947 winter was far worse. And rationing was still in force. Tough times!!

Canada and Scandinavia get that EVERY winter, f.f.k's sakes ........ never see THEM coming to a grinding halt! What IS it with Britain when a bit of winter weather stops everything? Jeez, the authorities get a whole year to prepare for winter.

I would have left this in its original 4:3 aspect.

Yes I remember we went to one of my aunts houses for Boxing Day and while the adults were having a bit of a party in the living room, me and my brother were playing in the hall with our toy cars. I was 5 and he was 3 ,there was a small window halfway up the stairs and we noticed it snowing! We sat there on the stairs for ages just looking out of the window at the snow falling and hoping it would stay so we could play out in it tomorrow! We definitely weren’t disappointed 😂😂😂😂!

Good old days ,,,and we went to school every day no matter what the weather ,,,

What did they blame for this weather? Iwas 12 at the time I always seemed to betracking down to the local hardshop for more paraffin. Boom boom blue esso blue.

When vauxhall/ Bedford ruled!

That damn background music is too annoying !!!

Theres been two worse winters ,,mike and bernie ,,terrible 😮

I remember that period vividly, we lived in Chadwell Heath, Essex. My dad helped my brother (5 )and I (6) build a snowman in the front garden. We happily pelted each other with snowballs, the traffic was almost none existent, so we could slide up and down the High Road to our hearts content. Hands frozen, but enormous fun. I don't recall being cold, always thought of it as being magical!

I was 14 when l woke up on new yrs morning to a foot of snow on the ground. There must have been more falls (in spite of the following 3mths of below zero temps), cos the last of it didn't melt til early April. People were skating on our local lake, sledging down the hill of the park opposite and trying to chase up plumbers for their fractured (outside) toilets. Unfortunately my memory doesn't include how it affected my three very lucrative paper rounds, or to a lesser extent school life. Thats how it was in Luton, but it looks like other areas had it far worse.

I was 9 but I remember it, I remember the dads in our street clearing the pavements so we could all get to school as it was at the bottom of the street, ice on the inside of windows of the bedrooms, hot water bottle at bedtime to warm the bed up, playing snow ball fights in the street lots of fun. I live in Nottinghamshire.

Thames Poly November 1976 no one was on their arse then !! Different world now. Sadly.

My parents moved to Harlow in 1961, I was 11, lived there until 1968 when I left home and started work near windsor. Harlow was a credit to its visionary developers and planners, a great place to live , very good community, most folk lived in and rented a council house…very egalitarian. Before Mrs T became obssessed with capitalism and home ownership and ruined so many towns… it was a visionary experiment that blossomed but apparantly subsequently withered on the vine due to subsequent short term planning and lack of vision to keep the plan going….

Just the most brilliant time. Everything was so exciting. I was 11, the perfect age. And The Beatles released Please Please Me.

great music

what happened to global warming? plenty coal being burnt back then, I lived through it,

People knew how to manage in those days,didn’t rely on Mac Donald’s or KFC,we could make a meal with what we could get

I remember it well !

Such a shame the aspect ratio has been changed from 4:3 spreading everything out sideways. But also amazing that someone recorded al these radio broadcasts at the time. The music is lovely but adds nothing to the film.

"Shoot The Video" is the just the first ten minutes of this recording. The rest of it is a similar series called "I Camcorder" - which I have been looking for for years, thanks for uploading!

Global Warming what Crap !

Great video, but the music is too loud, at times drowning out the narration

Just wanted to ask you if you yourself own the original VHS of this? I'm presuming that this was bundled into a video camera package you yourself purchased or someone else did. If you do could provide some details.

3:11 look at that car tailgating 😮 such different times. I think even gritting the main roads wasn’t a thing then. Schools kept going because people lived much closer to them then, more local Village schools. People shopped more locally so in that respect it appeared that we coped better than we do now, which isn’t true.

Gr8 to see but a pity the picture has been squashed from its 4:3 ratio to fit widescreen 'requirements' (entirely UNnecessary)!

I was 13 when this happened but strangely I don't remember too much. I lived in the North West of the country. I remember the talk about the sea freezing and large show drifts, but didn't experience them. I remember my father driving by himself across the Pennines on the A66 and surprising the police because they thought the road was impassable.

I can just remember this winter, I was 4 at the time. However my [now late] father once told me that 1946/7 was equally bad.

I remember this, I was 9 years old. 😮

I remember a very cold house, a coal fire lit in the morning, and let die at night. A hot chocolate (rotted teeth due to sugar content) but most importantly, a hot water bottle...Tucked in! My father was a farmer, trucking water and food for the livestock. He was exhausted, but strong an uncomplaining. Shame we are currently governed by fussy, flimsy, self serving folk. (Men in particular). Get a grip! You are big boys now.

Yikes…I was 7….how on earth did my mum and dad manage? They were a tougher generation than the weak transgender confused sorts today who collapse at the first sign of trouble.

Why the loud music?

one of the most beautiful and genuine persons i ever got to know,and not just our beautiful friend barry but the band as well,first saw him and the rods when they supported the jam,so you now know how f..king great that experience was

About 3 minutes of absolute perfection

Love Radio Clips Remember my Grandmother when she was alive telling about the Winter of 1963

Net 0 would have left people freezing to death. Luckily most had coal fires

tough in them days and we went to school

We lost Bazzer...

Fantastic punk Barry Masters, this song should get more recognition, its brilliant ❤

Love it. RIP Barry. ❤️

Well done Pete, good version

Amazing. Didnt except to see my husband, boyfriend at the time on this video. Fantastic

Great footage of a real winter. I was only 8 years old at the time but remember the trudge to school and back each day on slippery pavements.

I was in Comprehensive school during this winter in 1963. It had been built 2 years earlier and had modern buildings and a huge boiler house that heated to school. Only those travelling in on school buses left early My late parents both went out to work every day on public transport that ran to time table in Liverpool with the corpy always nightly gritting to main roads. People back then seemed to just get on with things, and showed resilience that may have overflowed from world war 2. What would the media say or government do if, heaven forbid, we had another three month big freeze like 1963. Or for that matter a repeat of 1976 when we had a three month heat wave.

I remember it well as a 13 year old. It amuses me nowadays when we have a cold snap how our sensationalist media compare it with 1963. I don't remember my school closing but it was very cold in class even though the buildings were only four years old. We looked forward to science lessons in the only warm classrooms, the science labs with bunsen burners lit!

Snowy scenes of skiing and sleding joy with a funereal soundtrack. Very stoic. Very British. 😁

I'm 66 on the 22nd of this Month and I well Remember the Big Freeze of 1963 and I'm just Wondering if the Samething was to happen today how would the County Cope?as its my Believe that the County wouldn't or couldn't cope as all the Government's have not learned any lessons from the bad winter's off the past and I Remember how hot the Summer off 1963 was