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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
@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.
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 ...
Hard to believe this was 35 years ago! It still looks so so modern! Amazing!
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!
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.
Brings back memories
That sky at 1:33 looks ominous.
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!
Well done!
Proper winters, don't get em like that nowadays!!! I was only little then and I loved it!!! :)
Oh I don't know..the one we're having now is bad enough Dec.8-10 2017 and 1st March 2018..
I came out with my shovel and dug someone's stranded car out of that snow and ice three times in one Sunday afternoon in the December 2017 one.
There was also a bad winter during Decemeber 1981, as I recall.
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!
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and 1983.
@@agfagaevartYes,I remember us getting some snow in February 1983,too. I was at college and also learning to drive at the time.
I was born during this 12/1/87 in Rotherham where a woman froze to death…..
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.
@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 love those cold bright days especially when you are in the country side its a spectacular site, try to picture it as well.
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.
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 seem to remember digging cars out for two weeks. And some days when it was totally impassable
all I remember of the cold in those days was the fact that I couldn't my little toe
i must of gone sleding back then on the local field near to where i lived
I wonder if anyone has a recording of the weather forecast for the snowfall in 1987?
4cm's is enough to make headlines or show that we are in the so called "Ice Age" let alone 24" of snow!"
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!
And it's not over yet ! :-D
Back with a vengeance 2008-09!!!
@s1collin yes i remember this one.. but having moved out to Canada in 2007 the winters out here a tad more servere.. like minus 51 in january 2090
Why was this a Thames News item when TVS had excellent coverage of the region ?
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 ...
I say good riddance! 1987's big freeze was what made me hate the winter, the snow and the ice! And I've hated it ever since!