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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I recall that winter of '63

UK weather: Winter of 1963 was so cold the sea froze - Mirror Online

My main memory of it is that the snow that fell at the start stayed around so long that it got mucky and and turned to thick dark ice.

I don't recall missing going to work - if buses stopped running you were expected to walk to work.

I was working on the new shops on Union Street Accy that winter, it was my job to light the brazier every morning, which was one of the better jobs