Leonard Parkin was a legend of a newsreader and always professional. Always made sure making a point of welcoming the younger viewers as well as adults
I won't forget it. Three feet of snow and 15-foot drifts buried my entire town. Awesome whiteouts and sledging has never been better. Plus seeing ice packs flow down the Thames was surreal.
@@AlexAlex-lo7sx Actually, we did. I was working as a professional DJ at the time, 1974-1990, and I did a LOT of weddings. And they were hot and sultry. So let's see if you can name the year that kick-started the English wine industry by the hot summer?
You're spot on about the big freeze in January and the October hurricane. There was a lot of rain at times in the late spring and early summer but a short very warm or hot spell in early May and a lengthier,more substantial one around Wimbledon time. I started a new full time office job in the last week of the January,when the snowy conditions were still with us,and they soon started offering us Saturday overtime if we wanted it sometimes. On Mondays to Fridays we had to dress smartly with shirt and tie and no jeans for the chaps,but with the customer services desk at the front closed to the public at weekends we could wear casual clothes on those Saturday shifts,so as it could get very warm in that office some of us took to coming in in shorts on any Saturday when we were there and the temperature was on the high side. Some of the younger ladies often wore mini skirts or rather short ones,and they were permitted to wear shorts if they wanted to during the week. As I recall,there was a warm,dry spell in early September that year as well.
January 1987 was luxury. We lived through the winter of 1947. In my day, we kept warm by burning shoes, books, homework, the garden shed and floorboards, if we were lucky. It was character-building. And you could leave your front door unlocked, if you hadn't burnt all the doors in your house to heat up thin gruel first!
Imagine the daily Express headlines now if we were expecting a cold spell like this, - 50 freeze on the way with 40ft snow drifts, and it could last six months with snow as late as July.
"hundreds of secondary schools were closed": direct quote. Evidently some people didn't go to work, the usual nostalgia bias, everything was better in the good old days coming out.
We still had to walk to school in one of the biggest freezes,but that was in 1979. I lost one of my shoes in a snowdrift that February and couldn't locate it until at least a fortnight later!
If want to see a winter beyond all winters. The winter of 1962-1963 lasted from Christmas 1962 and the snow didn’t disappear until March 1963. BBC TV in 2013 broadcast an old archived recording first broadcast at the end of February 1963 about that big freeze and it was the longest prolonged freeze since the 1750’s although the winter of 1947 before i was born was supposedly worse with much deeper snow but a shorter length. You can find the old bbc current affairs programme about the 1963 winter on RU-vid by doing a search and see what a real extreme winter is really like in the UK. I lived through that winter and i can remember how horrendous it was and i was born in 1952.
I wasn't born yet but the winter of 1962-63 was legendary. Older generations told me all about it when comparing it to our big freezes in the 80s,and the generation before them told us recollections of the 1947 one. The other extreme weather event they used to tell me a lot about their experiences of was the notorious Great London Smog of the early 50s/early 60s.
I was a professional DJ at this time, and am very proud of the fact that I never missed aa gig, whether a mobile disco or working in nightclubs. In fact I received more bookings because of my attitude of never saying, "No, I can't go out in this weather". And I was still doing wedding receptions throughout. I got to the hotels when over half of the guests didn't.
@@hmmmmm2634 If the weather is bad, do you dodge work? Do you get paid if you do? Are you a trained and experienced paramedic? Do you carry a First Responders kit at all times? Do you have internal and rooftop strobes fitted to your car/van, legally? Do you carry two types of fire extinguishers, large size? Do you carry two warning triangles? Do you carry tripod mounted strobe lights to place in the road? Do you carry, in the weather above, a snow shovel, wear the proper clothes and footwear for the conditions? Do you carry blankets and foil thermal blankets? Do you carry shake and throw Snap lights in Red, yellow and green? Are you an experienced mountaineer, who was a member of an MRT, and was the medic for that Team? Do you carry a Thermos flask, plus extra water and a water heater, plus extra cups? I fully expect the answers to all of those questions is NO! You are not even a trained First Aider, don't carry a first aid kit, as required by law, don't carry a warning triangle, and certainly ever carry spare Hi-Viz for any victims. By the way, GOD is capital letters. The phrase "For GOD'S sake"! is correctly typed as I have it here. I have driven ambulances in blizzard and deep snow conditions, on Blues and Two's. Don't judge others by your own miserable townies standards, scared to go out in a shower of rain. And you, clearly, have never worked self-employed. WTF, do you think PROFESSIONAL means? Cretinous ORC.
I was delivering soft drinks for Britvic Corona at this time. I remember offloading about 30 cases ready to be hand-trucked into storage at a farm. The bottles were freezing solid in front of our eyes. The farmer came out, took one look, and told us to put it all back on the wagon as he wouldn't sell it. I decided I wasn't destined to work outside and got a nice office job.
Stayed at my future wife's having seen the Priest with regards to getting married - opened the door in the morning to massive snow drifts! Took almost 4 hours from New Eltham Station to London Bridge via the 21 bus (no trains!) - and from there I had to get to Bethnal Green. Don't you just love snow!
They were huge! I was tiny but I still remember this, the biggest snowdrifts ever, it was easy to make an igloo inside an hour, brilliant! I’m glad you got back eventually and hope you’re still together.
I was spreading cow slurry near Newport ,Monmouthshire,it was so cold it wouldn't pump out of the tower until we stirred it all night. The wind chill outside the milking parlour read -17. It wasn't a terrjble time,as the pub was open 24/7 😂
Correct. We seemed to get one snowless winter every four years (1979-80,1983-84,1987-88),but from 1988 onwards the winter temperatures suddenly moved a grade warmer. The weather also became drier on the whole,causing many small rivers,brooks and streams to dry up completely at times,certainly in the south,in the 90s. It wasn't until the autumn of 2000 that we seemed to get a return to the heavy rainfall and regular flooding that has become a familiar feature of more recent times. A Scot did dispute that,based on his experience in his part of our country,in a previous online discussion,but that was what was going on down here.
One of only two occasions my school closed due to snow (the other was November 1995 I think), and even then at lunchtime. Nowadays schools just shut as a matter of course if there is any snow at all.
We were snowed in, in our village in Kent. The army dropped in milk and bread by helicopter. I queued for hours for my half a loaf ration. And it was my birthday and there was no post lol. I was 26
I have to say that where once I found I could leave the TV on one of the main rolling news channels,mostly BBC News,in the last seven or eight years it almost always seems to be a matter of time before something comes on that makes me think "oh,sod off!" and change the channel to get away from them. On commercial news channels that's more often than not certain adverts. I suppose it ensures that I regularly view news coverage from a minimum of five different channels,some more than others.
I went arce over tit on my bicycle riding in the snow then I hit the road , with no snow! That’s when I learned what black ice was, slid into a snow drift
Brrrrrr it was cold ! I think it was because the temperature was low, and that made it snow, and it makes it difficult to drive , and train services are disrupted, no one was on the beach in Cornwall sun bathing , it would be a pain walking to the pub, but I wouldn't mind the walk home if I was a bit tipsy,😀
I was a milk boy delivering milk before going to school. I started at 4 in the morning. I think I started in 1980, what you called ‘Olden days’🤣. It’s was a great job as a child and we delivered other things such as orange juice and the job gave me a independent income. Today, I’d be reported to social services for my Jamaican parents instilling in a work ethic in me. I later graduated to a paper round and I recall when Carl Bridgewater RIP was killed delivering papers. One people
Yea, apparently December 2010 was the coldest December for a century! Global warming means we don't get really cold snaps for as long as we used to.....but they do still happen!
Look into recently declassified cia files, about how (during the cold war), the ussr tested/used Scalar weapons on the US (possibly, others too?). With one, trying to effect the weather. By using a Scalar weapon that dropped the tempurature to zero (in a specific location). It'll wake you up, to a part of the 'cold war' you were probably unaware of (kept secret by disinfomation). These weapons can have various effects. One of them, is Time dilation. This isn't star trek, this is technology of the now. And many countries research it in secret ...
Funnily enough,it was in that late 80s era that concerns about climate change began to get into the mainstream. Leaded petrol was in the process of being phased out,the hole in the ozone layer entered public discourse,people were becoming more concerned by pollution (even if Tom Lehrer had already written a song about it many years previously) and advertisers started to market some products to a perceived "green" demographic. The Ecology Party,of which my physics teacher at school was a member,renamed itself the Green Party.
*That wus proper wintre 'eh lad, them with 'eating luxury we 'ad to 'it each os with 'ammers 'til dru blud to kep 'arsesels from freezin' to deth ! 'eh lad we wus 'appy then*
We already know that global warming is taking place but they can't stop themselves laying the doomsday cult stuff on with a shovel on every report,can they?
