Football, horse racing. People, get your priorities sorted.

Sorry for being so mean, but living in Dawson, Yukon, Canada, this really makes me laugh out loud.

If you have to go to work and there is snow, just stay home. You know, like you were on strike. It's not that hard.

So, sixty fwee was it. The big fwees of sixty fwee. Learn bloody English man.

I was an 8 year old girl. We had no central heating, and mum had a paraffin heater in the kitchen and the coal fire in the sitting room. When we went to bed we had hot water bottles. We still went to school, and it was an old school with inadequate heating, and we never took our coats off. Life went on 😊

I was 18 at the time and travelled to London from Essex every day to go to work. Most people just carried on as usual.

I was out in it delivering papers would you believe. I was 8 and didn't get to school until gone 10 , luckily my headmaster saw my plight so I didn't get told off .

I was 6 then ,and we still went to school,on foot ,yes oh my god not in a car ,get 2 inches of snow these days and the country comes to complete standstill,

I was 14 years old. We had ice on the inside of all our windows indoors. We still went to school and sat huddled in coats and scarves in class. All neighbours and children were out clearing snow from the roads so buses could get through. There was a big cheer from everyone when the first bus got through. None of us had central heating in the houses. No one was miserable, and we just got on with it. I honestly believe people can't cope nowadays. Having said that, I wouldn't like to cope with it again.

I lived through that. We had 1.5 metres (5 feet) of packed snow on the streets in Cleethorpes. Roads were all closed, and even the snowploughs had problems in clearing the main routes into town. My parents dug steps outside of our back and front doors, so that we could check up on neighbours. The walls between terraced houses were completely buried. We had power cuts, and food was hard to obtain. Schools were closed, so dad made us a sledge. We used it almost every day, and I had chilblains worse than I've ever had since then. Thanks for bringing back these mixed memories.

Happy memories strangely! Only 16 yrs old , just seemed like a normal Winter at the time. Riding our pushbikes on icy roads, broadsiding to emulate our speedway heroes of the day!! Not much traffic to worry about!😀😀

I was 19 and enlisted in the RAF. We had to dig out the runway and peritrack lighting by hand after the snow ploughs had cleared the runway. Itnwas cold!🥶

Nationalised public services with excellent pay and conditions! Strong industries! Mass housebuilding! Everything you like about the Britain of old was because of socialism and the Labour Party. The decline started in 1979.

I remember that winter, i was 9 years old, my Mum said "bring the milk in" early one morning so we could have 'ready brek' i opened the back door and an Avalanche of snow fell into our kitchen 😂

Very true I couldn't get to school. Shame 😂

Staggering to think that the public and broadcasters used to have access to actual govt figures and costs.

I was 11. Ice on inside of windows,no central heating. But here we are. Survivors.

I was due to sit my 11 plus in '63 but the school lavatories - out in the yard - were frozen solid so the school closed until it thawed out. Was I upset ? Certainly not, I had a whale of a time playing in the snow. We had coal fires at home, delivered from our local coal merchant and also a supply of railway coal as my Grandpa was a driver on the Western Region. I don't remember any serious shortages here in Llanelli but as I was only 11, they may have escaped my childish notice.

And we didn't get any time off school not like today's wimps

I was 9 and the memories are still fresh about this winter.

We all knew everyone in the street back then folk worked together for each other...

I thought I was 8 but I was 7. I remember foot icicles on the washing line. School wasn't cancelled as everyone walked to school, and I remember sliding my way to school, going to the park and being freezing cold with my little friend Pearl, we didn't want to go home. We jumped into a snow drift and all but disappeared. We finally agreed we needed to go home as our wellies were soaked inside from all the snow. We sledged down the hill in the park with dozens of other kids too. As little kids our memories would be very different from the adults of course, but I don't remember anyone freaking out, as neighbours shopped for the old folks and no one panicked, I remember having a hot water bottle at night in bed, and thick frost on the Windows in the morning. I was in foster care in Bushy as my mum was in hospital. People were more robust back then. No central heating, coal fires, in Bushy there was an indoor toilet, but there was only heating in the living room or kitchen when food was cooking.

I remember those days.❤

Snow started in early December 62 in South Devon. Too much snow for the midwife to reach my mother in labour in her car, so father had to walk the 1.5 miles to where he found her stuck in the snow so with her clutching her bag he carried her on his back to our cottage to deliver me. Apparently the snow was still there at the end of February 63.

Chris packham oh good lord no

My wife keeps saying it’s cold , I said you don’t know what cold is 😂

I remember the 63 freeze. I was 7 years old and every school day we walked to school through the snow and ice. Like all 7 year old schoolboys, shorts were worn winter and summer. The only protection I can remember was wearing a woolen balaclava (knitted by my gran), school scarf, school blazer and on top of that a duffel coat. Footwear, wellies of course. As bad as 63 was, 12 years later I emigrated to Canada, and the freeze of 63 felt like nothing compared to a brutal Canadian winter. Much lower temperatures, a lot more snow, and this happened every winter lasting for 4 months.

Well im in the weather of 2024 december and its 32% really nice and warm. Ido not like the cold Thailand is perfect.

I was 13, we lived in the Peak District and still had to go to school. A mile walk to bus stop, the buses had chains on the wheels. I remember it well.

I was homeless during that winter having just moved to London. No winter coat , holes in the bottom of my shoes, but thanks to the circle line where I slept ,Marshall St public baths where I could have a hot bath & the kindness of the Fleet St printers who often bought us food , I managed to survive & went on to a successful career.I’m now in my 80s but will never forget that winter

I remember this, I was 15 and still went to work

If we had another one today, the lefties would be running around in a panic, screaming about climate change and weeping all over the place while they build arks.

I remember it well. Ice on the inside of the windows.

Better to deal with cold than warming of the earth!

I remember cycling to work on roads covered in thick ice from early 1963 and that it wasn't until March that the first thaws came.

My lovely Mum and Dad got married on 16th March 1963, after the worst of the big freeze, though some ice and snow remained in the bottom of the hedgerows.

i was thinking about the problems today if this storm happened and the electricity went out so many houses would not have any heating !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember it like yesterday. We woke up early on Christmas day to heavy snow, and the whole landscape was a fairyland of wonder and delight! We couldn't believe how beautiful and exciting our Christmas morning was. We went to church as always, first thing, and I wore a white cloak with white fur around the edge. It was freezing and didn't keep out the cold, but it was magical wearing it in the snowy weather. When we got home we played out in the snow for hours. I remember my mother, who was always so quiet and focused on her homely duties, going for a walk down the lane and literally throwing herself into a snow drift for a laugh! We'd never seen her so joyful! I'm retired now, but I'm so blessed to have such wonderful memories of that year. Merry Christmas everyone. 🎄✨🙏🏻❄️🕯️🇬🇧

imagine this today, it would be worse, over dependence on just in time deliveries, everything needing electricity (shop payments) much less home grown or local food, not many houses have open fires to burn wood or coal,

It was brilliant. We made forts, defended them with massive snowball fights, made proper igloos, went sledging. Don't remember cold particularly, walked to school in wellies. Milk popped out of the bottles on the doorsteps. Aged 7.

I recall 1947 as a Child,then working in London in 1963. Went down to Portsmohth by train one weekend,wheny Mother,sister and friend were marooned by snow too deep for them to walk home.my Dad,brother and I, went through the snow wearing waders and piggy backed all 3 home. The cold was so intense it made breathing difficult.

Thank fk for shovels

In 1963 most homes had fire places, and prudent folk kept reserves of coal. If the worst came to the worst, bits of furniture could have been burnt. Today most homes have no autonomous means of heating, and many thousands would freeze to death. But that's OK, because at least the "net zero" "targets" would me met.

Thank goodness we had blazing coal fires 🔥….will never forget this time. Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I was born in September of that year, I must have brought the cold with me! Lol!🤣

I had to still go to school every day in this 😊😊😊😊

I recall being sad when seeing sheep being discovered under huge snowdrifts 😢

I remember it well, i was an ice cream seller i didn’t make a penny that winter, i went broke and lost my ice cream business.

No Scaremongering Psychiatrists cryying 'Trauma'!!!! and Stress......!!!

Iiiiiiiittttttsss climate change panic panic