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….
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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!
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
Lots of Epping Essex views. I was almost ten and living in Harlow Essex and can recall opening our front door to be confronted by a wall of snow higher than our letter box, We still went to school though . My brother and i earned quite a sum clearing people`s paths over the weekends. Happy days.
Portfolio Holder for Strategic Growth, cllr Mike Hardware said: “I grew up in Cambridgeshire 50 years ago and all the lights went off at midnight and still do. There is no greater crime or accident rate there! Switch them off and save electricity, money and the environment! “It seems Labour care about none of these!
The first snow fell Boxing afternoon 1962 I watched the first flakes fall it was still light then Next morning we opened the back door to be greeted by a wall of snow with just a small gap at the top of the doorframe. This was rather inconvenient as we still had an outside toilet lit by a candle ....but that's another story. I was 13 in 1963 and boy did we have fun I seem to recall we were deep frozen until March and during this time we had multiple snow falls. Ponds and lakes were frozen so much that people drove cars over the ice. Heating those days were paraffin dome heaters the one downfall from them was the condensation would form on your single glazed windows, you would wake up in the morning with fantastic ice patterns ON THE INSIDE ! Getting washing dry was a real problem too My mum used to hang wet clothes outside and they would freeze stiff LOL .Boy life was so much better in those days there were no over weight kids and the simple life was so good Harold McMillian said "we have never had it so good" He was right !
