Real Winters

[Surrey Snow]

Here follows some pictures of a time when we used to have real winters and proper snow events in the UK.

The younger members of the forum have probably never seen anything like it.

Winter of 1982:











These images were taken in Wales.

I hope it's ok to post these here.

Enjoy!

SS

[pheonix]

yeah, your right ive never seen snow like that, i thought good snow was a foot deep with drifts a couple of feet deep!!

[Tinkerbell]

Judging from the conditions they are experiencing in New York just now, if the wind is in the right direction we could find ourselves up to our knees in it again this year!

[jennyb]

Originally Posted by Surrey Snow

The younger members of the forum have probably never seen anything like it.

Some of the more "mature" members may even remember the winter of 1962/63! I remember opening the back door one morning and the snow was half way up it. I did live in the North then, but these days we see so little snow. There has been none at all here (Berkshire) this year.

Jenny

[StuartDH]

I've got a couple of cousins (15 and 17 yrs old) who live down near the tip of cornwall and until this winter I don't think they'd ever had snow that settled.

Last year, after searching about the peaks for most of the day, I got to jump about in 3 feet of snow in the Edale valley, but I can't remember the last time that I'd seen it so deep.

[wildone]

Jenny, I can remember the winter of 1947. It was just after the end of WW2 and coal was, if not rationed, very scarce, along with power cuts. I lived in London then and it was bitterly cold. After the snow melted in the spring the whole of East Anglia was under water. There you are StuartDH no need to wait for your dire predictions, it has happened at least once in the last century and we have come back up smiling.

[Surrey Snow]

Here is a few more for you to "drool" over:

Again, taken in Wales in 1982.








Enjoy!

SS

[StuartDH]

The black and white above reminds of the time I went skiing with the school t Austria and we arrived everywhere and everything was keeply covered in snow and the it was falling thick and fast. We went to bed and when we woke up the next morning, we climbed out of the bedroom windows (upstairs) and stood on the snow

[HelenF]

I had never seen much snow until we moved here. We've had 2 winters here now and both have them, we've been snowed in. I moved from Lancashire where you hardly get any snow so was a bit of a shock (a nice one lol) to see all the snow.

This was taken last winter:



Helen

[nightshade]

I can remember being in Yorkshire at my grandparents house and it snowed and blew so hard the snow reached the 2nd storey windows on a 3 storey house,we had to come and go through the rear kitchen window and dig through to the front of the house with a coal shovel!

[Surrey Snow]

Thats a super picture Helen F! Thanks for sharing it with us

SS

[dissident]

Those photos of the '82 winter have really brought some memories back, thank you. I keep trying to explain to my fourteen year old son about that winter, but he just won't believe me. I'm going to have to show him these pictures now!

[rlchew]

Just as we start to get some warm, sunny weather after a grey and cold spring, someone comes along and reminds us of winter .

Great pictures though and memories of times past. Thank you for sharing them with us.

We rarely see a snowflake down here in Essex now. And there are still some people denying that global warming is a reality!

Fortunately I did see some wonderful winter wonderlands in the Scottish Highlands earlier in the year.

Richard