I didn't imagine it then? Someone else remembers. That's good. I can also recall a few snowball fights outside school, around about January 1985. Yeah, bring 'em back!
There's a young man in Kent who was born in hospital during the snowstorms because his Mum was taken there by two Redcaps and a Bobby in a soft top army Landrover - which was all that could be found to move her in the atrocious conditions. I was so glad she held on. Scariest bit of soldiering I ever did!
What intense cold that was. Plus such incredible amounts of snowfall! I was living in Winchester at the time and daytime temps didnt rise above -6 for 2 or 3 days. With the wind it was absolutely biting! Possibly the coldest spell of the last 2 centuries.
Yes,I remember that one. I walked to college in my wellies as the snow was thick and deep on the ground. There were also long snowy spells in January and February of1985,1986 and 1987!
@nicenac"British rail making that crap excuse in feb 1991 that it was "the wrong kind of snow" Yeah that's certainly gone down in the history of poor excuses...But...That snow in 1991 was dry and powdery as opposed to wet and sticky...It got sucked into the traction motors and burnt many of them out. The same happened last winter, except the snow had help being sucked into the works by cooling fans. Many modern trains self combusted quite spectacularly. Filters are now fitted to keep snow out.
i was 8 years old then, though I don't think the snowy conditions were as bad in east hertfordshire as they were in jan 1985 and feb 1991.British rail making that crap excuse in feb 1991 that it was "the wrong kind of snow" when according to this video 4 yrs earlier they must of had the same kind of snow with all those record low daytime temperatures.
A local vagrant,a curly-haired Irishman with one working eye,who I used to chat to sometimes sadly froze to death in the January 1985 one,I learned shortly afterwards.
yup, i totally agree, i use to love the winters, there were proper. miss those days, its sad how the climate has changed, but i do hope will get those proper winters back.
I would have liked more on the railways. Otherwise, quite excellent (I lived in Kent at the time, and although I was only six at least I caught - and can clearly remember - the end of Real Winter). The date is Monday 12th January 1987.
I remember that day very well. Kent and some of Essex were completely cut off by the afternoon as I recall from the early evening news. Coming back that day from spending a weekend with a friend staying at University student lodgings in Oxford,my brakes froze in and eventually failed. After a somewhat scary minute or so that seemed to last an eternity,I ended up crashing my car through someone's front garden brick wall in Rickmansworth,bringing the wall crashing down and writing my car off!
Yeah old style news - informative, varied etc. One of the last of the bad winters though how long did it last no more than 2 weeks ? After 90-1 and 96 where has all the cold and snow gone ...
