The Big Freeze Winter 1963
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elsie
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
These are the only photographs I can find in my archive
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Pathca
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
I was born the July before,my mum had a shop and my dad worked in the nearby town centre,I remember my mum saying it didn’t have as much of an impact on us as it did on a lot of people
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Sparkle
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
@elsie great photos, thanks.
With this hand, I will lift your sorrows. Your cup will never be empty, for I will be your wine. With this candle, I will light your way into darkness. With this ring, I ask you to be mine.........The Corpse Bride
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beejay
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
My daughter was born 23rd January 1963, at home, in a small village already cut-off by snow drifts. Luckily for us, our doctor had been stranded in the village and was staying at the midwife's house. My wife had haemorrhaged was saved by those two. My mother was staying with us and cooked on the lounge fire for about two weeks as gas was cut off and we didn't have an electric cooker but we did have a solid fuel boiler for hot water.
** that was when it was a village of 600 houses with a surgery, resident midwife, and two police houses with resident officers. Only the surgery survives - now there is an 1800 pupil college with students arriving by car, bus or train - such is progress.
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Wilbro
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
No football for us in the local amateur leagues and the ground of Halifax Town was used as a skating rink.
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Hotrodder
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
Don't suppose you've got a Stratocaster..............L Austin France wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:45 pmA mere slip of a gal.
Most of my guitars are older than you
I miss mine like an old friend.
On my headstone it will say: Please switch off mobile phones. I'm trying to get some sleep.
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ExMontpelliérain
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
I remember trudging through thigh deep snow in Birkenhead Park and being given ‘the strap’, along with about 40 other pupils, for arriving late.
Nous sommes nos choix.
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L Austin France
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
Sorry. They're mostly Hofners from '62 - '65Hotrodder wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:50 pmDon't suppose you've got a Stratocaster..............L Austin France wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:45 pmA mere slip of a gal.
Most of my guitars are older than you
I miss mine like an old friend.
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demi
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
I was 8 and my school was closed for 2 weeks due to frozen/burst pipes.
I lived in the Channel Islands and have a memory of playing on the bech and there being ice in the sea. I am not sure if it is a reliable memory...off to google.
I lived in the Channel Islands and have a memory of playing on the bech and there being ice in the sea. I am not sure if it is a reliable memory...off to google.
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exile
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The Big Freeze Winter 1963
Could well be. I remember the sea freezing off Whitstable for many metres into the estuary.