A Winter's Day, BBC2, January 1982 

Same here....

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.

@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!

love you man

Same

I agree totally

Totally agree too

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

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

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

Now you get "Snow Days"

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

HA van

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 😂

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

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.

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

Luxury!

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

Yep

u make it sound like a competition rich...

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

@@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.

@@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!

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.

Publicat pe 13 ian 2021

Last time was March 2013 and January 2010.

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

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

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?

@@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!

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

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

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

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

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

And then 2018 arrived❄️🌨⛄️

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.

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

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

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!

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

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