A Winter's Day, BBC2, January 1982

[@fredonions2523]

This brings back some wonderful memories, I wish I could go back to the 80s, I'd probably stay there forever.

[@TheInfinitebeing]

Same here....

[@bascet1]

Me too, better football, better tv, loads of pubs, better music. Even better terrorists! At least the IRA gave bloody warnings!! Most of These religious maniacs don't even know why they're planting or detonating the bombs these days.Not hamstrung by crazy political correctness. Our Cities didn't resemble third world shitholes. People will think oh what a bigot but I'm just giving my honest opinion of the 80s for me. Has the influx of all these immigrants worked honestly? No way. London rivalling New York for murder rate! Jesus wept! Never in my whole life had I questioned being safe visiting London until now. That's our capital,well it used to be. A great city resembling a third world dump which is becoming lawless because the police are so terrified of being labelled racist they'd rather serious crime occurred unchecked. The police in the UK are like politically correct social worker security firm!! We all thought we'd eradicated Communism but most of our politicians are Marxist as is the BBC. The loony left don't realise they're selling us white working class down the river because we are an easy target. Dangerous.

[@woodbine66]

@bascet1 Agree with everything you say. Grew up in the 70s/80s. Was a golden era. We've lost so much and the kids think we're bigots - they don't know what they've lost too because they weren't there. 3rd world London today, rest of UK tomorrow. Bring back the 70s and 80s. We were all in it together!

[@michaelwalton9528]

love you man

[@melgrant7404]

Same

[@roberttucker805]

I passed my driving test on the 6 Jan 82 and had great fun learning skid control in my Viva. Fortunately I didn't end up in the ditch! Happy days.

[@jillfrancis8380]

I was 19 on the Isle of Wight. We had spectacular snow drifts across the roads joining the hedges creating huge meringue like sculptures. My dad and I couldn't get to work so took the day off - that was wonderful too!

[@ajs41]

Does the Isle of Wight quite often have no snow during a winter?

[@jillfrancis8380]

Hello Andrew I'd forgotten about my comment....I have moved away from the Isle of Wight but I think the weather is generally much milder hence the holiday destination; there's a Botanical Garden on the South East Coast at Ventnor which is quite a sun trap. However sometimes the Island is very exposed to extreme weather as I experienced all those years ago in 1981. I'm sure someone can explain why the Island is susceptible to extremes of weather. Just realised I didn't answer your question...as I haven't lived there recently I would have to say I don't know if the Island always has snow or not, maybe someone else will pipe in with a better answer.

[@mark.e.p]

I was a student in London. Had tickets to see The Pretenders they turned up despite the weather. They were brilliant tickets cost £4.50.

[@stevenmorgan2872]

Yes Wonderful memories !!!!! I lived in the heart Snowdonia for 21 years. From 1976 to 1997. The Mountains was my Life. !!!!!!! Some of this clip reminds me of my village which was built into the Mountain Side with only one road in. Quite often we get cut off in the winter when it Snowed and it would take 2 days for the diggers to clear the snow away from the road and make it passable. But in those days we did not panic or care because we respected the Weather and the Mountains. Everyone had Chest freezers and above all We always looked out for each other !!!!!! What a Same that respect for our Neighbours and the Weather no longer exists in the World We Live in today !!!!!!!

[@anthonywhelan4660]

I live in Australia but I was in Britain and Ireland during that Winter. Christmas Mass in Sussex was magical. I drove from Mayo to Dublin without chains on the tyres. I couldn't put the brakes on. It took us eight hours to crawl back to Dublin. We stopped once because Mum had to do her Irish yoga - a cup of tea. Dad slipped over five times in one day because he wore cheap non gripping shoes he'd picked up in Singapore on the way over. I was traumatized by the time we reached Dunlaoghaire.

[@christopherhulse8385]

I was 12 in 1982, I remember it very well, schools still stayed open my way, had to take big steps through the drifts to get there.

[@DJ-Daz]

Same age here, though our schools closed as soon as the buses struggled to move. But that's hilly Halifax.

[@Ingens_Scherz]

That was a great winter. I remember skating on the town pond, jumping into seven foot snow drifts in the woods and sledging every single day. It was also bloody freezing for weeks. Pipes burst, huge icicles were hanging off the windows and dad trying to get the car out of the road every morning was an adventure all its own. Heaven.

[@dg9015]

Amazing memories

[@crutemartyn1523]

The bullshit of today when we get an inch of snow !! We grind to a halt ,

[@davidrepton2998]

I agree totally

[@stevewalsh-balshaw1727]

Totally agree too

[@Mod-rw9cw]

We were off school for two weeks and the snow was great we used to slide down the hill on thick plastic sheets. My Dad used to get the plastic from the pit. After 4 hrs hands and feet were numb but we used to go in for an hour then come back out and do it again.

[@MrDirkles]

This winter was amazing. I remember getting up early to get out in the snow. Got dressed and went to the back door, couldn't open it. Front door, couldn't open that either. As we lived next to open fields the snow had drifted around the whole house to about 10 ft high. Id like to add that the milk and post was still delivered!

[@dg9015]

Wow fantastic. I was 10

[@dg9015]

Where did you live

[@MrDirkles]

@@dg9015 Thorrington ,Essex

[@dg9015]

@@MrDirkles cheers, we had it bad here in S.Wales

[@MrDirkles]

@@dg9015 have you ever had snow like it since?

[@660einzylinder]

I was in my last year at school in '82. How nice to see proper workmen in donkey jackets and a postie in a Viva van! In '86 we had some snow and I had a Viva van, loaded some tractor weights in the back for traction and got round ok, not like modern motors which spin on a cowpat!

[@roberttucker805]

Nothing beats a good old Viva van. Wish I still had mine!

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

HA van

[@Celticowl4136]

I remember my dad wore a donkey jacket when he swept the road of leaves on the 'job creation' scheme. He slept in the back of his little van most of the time 😂

[@dg9015]

​@@Celticowl4136lovely memories

[@NOWThatsRichy]

Back in the days of proper winters, with major snow events, remember this well, we were staying with family in Thame in Oxfordshire, foot deep snow, the doorstep milk being frozen solid & hard ice on the *inside* of the bedroom windows!

[@graemewilliams6150]

I remember this snowy Month in 82" where I was raised in St Helens. We were near Burtonwood and it snowed very heavily there. Most of the time we walked to avoid car use it was so bad.

[@dark108x]

I'd just turned 4 at this time, memories are not so clear, but helped a bit as my dad made some brilliant clear b&w photos of us all out in the snow. Our house was right at the foot of a pretty steep hill and since there were no cars around, it made a great toboggan run. I was in South Somerset, which is generally too mild for snow - we had some the following year, and that was it till the 90s. I'm just back from Innsbruck, and even they don't get that much snow these days.

[@garymitchell7095]

Now this what you call snow in 1982... I remember it very well and we still went to school in it no matter what & i was only 13 years old and loved walking to school there and back...my school was 7 miles away from my house

[@skipmckee6540]

Luxury!

[@anthonyleighton4754]

That would be called child abuse nowadays if you're not going to school in a Chelsea tractor....

[@HackneyShark]

God, it snowed hard that year. I had a new baby brother. I remember watching the snow from my Mum's window and thinking 'Wow.' Big sis and I built a fantastic snowman.

[@vantheman1238]

Lived in Abergavenny. Turned 13 the day before this film. We were sledging down our steep road a week later. After the snow had frozen and gone compact it was like having our own Cresta Run. Loved it

[@dawnieSJ]

brought a big smile to my face, happy days :)

[@chrisb4504]

The sound of that little Bedford brings back memories. If only I could have another go at life knowing what I know now.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Yep

[@robertwilliams9234]

I was living in ebbw Vale took me a hour to walk to work and it was closed

[@Marymooau]

I remember this. I was 3. We had -18f in Gloucestershire and our village was cut off for a week

[@adeh503]

And now watching on Wednesday January 13th 2021

[@favorittvromania5964]

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[@richardb.roberts4649]

Nothing compared with Winter 1963 when I was 16 away at school in Montgomeryshire Wales and it snowed till March.Wonderful memories for all us no matter when it was

[@michaelwalton9528]

u make it sound like a competition rich...

[@garywinterbottom6073]

My father told me 1947 was the worst he'd ever seen.

[@zen-xb7xq]

@@garywinterbottom6073 With temperatures so cold the sea froze in places, 1963 is one of the coldest winters on record. Bringing blizzards, snow drifts, blocks of ice, and temperatures lower than -20 °C, it was colder than the winter of 1947, and the coldest since 1740. It began abruptly just before Christmas in 1962.

[@twittykins]

@@zen-xb7xq My great uncle told us that sea spray coming over the front at Scarborough was freezing within seconds of hitting the pavement in 1963. My dad mentioned that the snow was so deep in Hucknall, people took to walking on the roofs of buried cars to avoid sinking into the drifts!

[@roadgent7921]

Overall 63 was worse, but 82 actually had the record lowest temperatures in Scotland and England that still stand today. Also there were regional differences.

[@onenarrowdoor]

And we still had to go to school. No heating (frozen pipes) but allowed to wear coats and hats in class.

[@MrDaiseymay]

i've been watching similar vids, of the great winter's of 1947 and 1963. and the comments, are all the same.

[@mark.e.p]

Wouldn't happen now Health & Safety didn't exist back then luckily.

[@leeneale8776]

and we loved it!!! :))) I was 13

[@colinmayes5892]

Now you get "Snow Days"

[@zeddeka]

Where was that? All mine were cancelled. We thought all our birthdays had come at once.

[@WillScarlet1991]

I miss this kind of deep snow. Wish it'd happen every year. It seems we get it maybe once every 10-15 years now.

[@XYZUNKNOWN]

Last time was March 2013 and January 2010.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@XYZUNKNOWN+ I wonder how this year (2018) will be like.

[@garethifan1034]

@@WillScarlet1991 Ha - it was great - tonnes of snow! Another record breaker!

[@naysmith5272]

This is very good - just the sort of thing its great to see archived.

[@bloggalot4718]

I left school in this weather, cycling to work if the roads were clear about five or six miles away, I think the heavy snow stayed for about three months!

[@Loverboy19691]

I was living in Bargoed then, in South Wales, and we had it bad there. I was 12 at the time.

[@sweetbutterfly9137]

This was when we had proper winters !!! Miss seeing the snow ❄️ x

[@poohsmate]

Great to see.. according to my diary for that day i was snowploughing and gritting the A435 between Cheltenham and Cirencester..and it was frigging cold!!!!

[@hj78]

I was 4 at the time, I still have a vague memory of Dad clearing the snow drift that was blocking the front door of our house. Also, proper Welsh accents. :-)

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Aye & my dad went to work with a suit on in his my 2 Ford escort with no problem. He would travel up to Edinburgh & all the way down to Leeds in the terrible winters but you just got on with it.

[@stevepettifer4896]

I was 6 in '82 and I don't know if school closed (probably not - I expect the heating was broken though as it was an old Victorian school) but I do remember a lot of tobogganing down service roads in Broadmoor forest! I'd have been hard pressed to recall what year it was though so I'm pleased I saw this.

[@zetametallic]

I'm the same age as you Steve, it was the first Winter I remember. I grew up in Liverpool which generally escapes the worst weathers but that one was bad and like you we went to school. I shouldn't laugh but my mum only had these 70's style heeled boots and she fell over right outside the school gates; all the children were laughing at her (and I was). "It's not funny, I'm nearly 40 this hurts" she said. She finally bought some wellies and even to this day she goes on about how embarrassing it was and me laughing at her. Good memories though😉. Do you remember Summer 1984, nobody else mentions it much but it was a hot one?

[@stevepettifer4896]

@@zetametallic I don't recall it but that was a bad year for us as sadly my mum passed away in April '84. I expect I spent a good chunk of that summer in Northern Ireland with family and it's rarely hot there!

[@zetametallic]

@@stevepettifer4896 I'm very sorry to hear that.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Wear I lived we had feet of snow, the road I lived on was a steep hill, all the kids dug a tunnel through the snow to sledge down, it was like the cresta run.

[@exgunnerdaz]

I was 16 this was the norm for most winters followed by long hot summers...no scare mongering in them days with the myth of global warming just got on with it. 🇬🇧

[@garethjudd5840]

I vividly remember my sister dared me to jump into a giant snowdrift. An hour later our Dad managed to dig me out.

[@garywinterbottom6073]

I remember it well I was 14 that winter was bitter cold.

[@craigdavidson2278]

Kids throwing snowballs....clearly not 2021

[@thornbird6768]

I was 15 in 1982 , remember getting to school and then by 10.30 getting sent home and that was only when the bus service stopped 🤣 I think the 80’s is the last time I remember having heavy snow for days and it was really cold so the snow didn’t melt before the next lot arrived . But we just got on with it . I think only 1day my Mum didn’t walk to the local shop !! Fun times , I’d love to have a winter like that again ❤️

[@John-lx9im]

Life was so much better then and simpler

[@isaachunt5799]

nice to see fred west on his tractor

[@balthiersgirl2658]

I was six years old I wish I could go back

[@luinesharpuines192]

I think the lady at 3.46 behind the desk looks rather nice !

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Yea lovely, natural beauty back then, no botox or fillers or fake tans

[@garethifan1034]

Aberystwyth at -15 to -18 for a whole week, sheets of ice on the sea could be seen from the promenade.

[@bryantrosie]

I was only 8 at the time, but remember this and the BBC2 ident!

[@smhorse]

Proper snow in those days. I just love snow.

[@Mark-rc1gj]

I was 15 at the time, remember doing a paper round was a nightmare. Just got on with it and then went to school. To think we went to war 3 months later in the Falklands how time has flown by

[@RobinCarmody]

The arch example, at least in (just) my lifetime, of a year which Britain ended in an almost unrecognisably different place from where it began it.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

What miners' strike of January 1982?

[@TheLRider]

Aberdaron still looks the same ha ha.

[@chrisgreenwood271]

14 at the time we had a milk round, a big bloody round, up every morning to give hand before school, we did have winters back then, learnt to drive in the old Sherpa milk float and an ex army light weight land rover 😀

[@charlottecameron9969]

I was at boring school. We all helped to dig the long driveway. We didn't have time off school.

[@leejohnson3209]

The winters are so mild now, unless there is a dramatic change I just can't envisage seeing snow that deep even in inland areas and higher ground, never mind on the low lying, coastal peninsula any time soon.

[@harrisonhooper5179]

Lee Johnson well that’s were your wrong because rk we are having a snow storm 😂😂

[@XYZUNKNOWN]

Happened in 2013, in March! The snow in parts of the Midlands but particularly North west England was even worse than this!

[@captainjack616]

It didn’t snow like this every winter back in the old days , there has always been mild winters , there’s always one tosser was who keeps banging on about the snow we used to get

[@edwardogrady6587]

And then 2018 arrived❄️🌨⛄️

[@leejohnson3209]

Five years after writing this comment and barely a snowflake on the LLyn. My original statement has held up so far. It just doesn't get cold enough for deep long lasting snow any more. Scenes like this are becoming more and more rare.

[@leegraham3473]

40 years ago

[@melgrant7404]

The drifts are what I remember most

[@martinrutter2707]

Brilliant to look back I was 6 then

[@DJ-Daz]

Ah the days we used to get glorious summers and terrible winters. When people would walk to work together, when people worked locally. When we lost my 5 foot 4 inch brother in law after he fell into in a 6 foot snow drift. Director: Ian McNulty, posted by mcnultymedia. Do I sniff nepotism? 😊😊

[@ends76]

waw this brought some good memories back.

[@paulwhilton7197]

Brilliant days I was 13 at this time frozen windows iced up outside toilets still went to school now a days bit of sleet this country comes to a stand still love to go back to the 80 a wouldnt change it for nothing

[@marianavoica3908]

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[@ih8hertz1]

Am I the only one who laughed at 3.36 "so a snow plough hasn't been up your end"

[@roberttucker805]

Don't knock it till you've tried it😂😂😂

[@Celticowl4136]

Grew up in north Wales in the 80s, and my dad's family, who were from the Llyn Peninsula all talked like the postman. My dad was unemployed around '82 and he was made to sweep the road on the 'job creation' scheme, had the donkey jacket and little viva van. The latter he used to sleep in the back of with his lunchbox on his chest 😂

[@moran68]

We had to walk to school bare foot in those days in our vests and underpants but we didn’t moan we just got on with it , happy days 😁

[@splodge57]

Underpants, what were they? You was one of the lucky ones.

[@roberttucker805]

There were fifteen of us living in a rolled up newspaper with only a box of swan vesta's for heating. We had to share a pair of underpants. Tell them that today and they won't believe you!

[@moran68]

@@roberttucker805 You were one of the lucky b@&£yards then ! Swan vestas ! We had to fart to keep warm !

[@iancoles1349]

I was snowed in down the Gower on this year.A bulldozer cleared the snow for us .And the imprints of the tracks on the road are still here to this day.Crazy times I was 16 with a new scrambler susuki 250 bike what fun I had on the gower roads.Never happen today I filled up on fuel with a store I had.My farther new it was coming he said to me have fun on the Friday night and at 9pm it started small flakes wind came later blizzard conditions I went outside at night and it was like being in the North Pole snowed for 2 days,he was a farmer fantastic times.I hate the world now im 58 now and the kids don't know nothing now.We set up a big farm bomb fire and the snow melted 20ft round it and u could see the grass.No school ye 😂 I went fishing on Llangennith beach i lived 2 miles from there and it was the first and last I saw that beach covered in snow and with white dunes.

[@jameslindley924]

CAT 977K or 977L and Likely Lad - Bob in the Viva Van - Terry Pushing !! lol

[@meggadodge05]

I remember what I was doing that night 👌🥰😂

[@garethfloydevans861]

U millions spent for nothing just wait a day or so it will melt

[@murrayalex4843]

I'd like to make a formal complaint about the lack of diversity in this video, not a single black or Asian person was in it. It's no wonder people are getting so angry.

[@lennylaa1686]

😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣

[@chrisdobb3376]

7

[@tonygunn6889]

Ha van Bedford

[@TheAsylum100]

Climate change my ass

[@dc1283]

What about all the diversity

[@MrDaiseymay]

This wasn't worth watching---5 bloody minutes of rubbish

[@AJ-qn6gd]

207 likes 7 dislikes your outvoted mate.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Tw@t