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Originally Posted by jambutty
If anyone was around during the winter of 1947, now that was cold and it lasted for well over a month.
Even the sea at Blackpool froze. Not enough to walk on but nonetheless the surface was ice. 6 feet snowdrifts was the norm with the general snow fall at around 12 inches.
Schools didn’t close though, we just didn’t take off our hats and coats when we got there. And of course we walked to school.
Any transport that did manage to venture out (not that there was much anyway) had to have chains on its wheels otherwise it got nowhere.
Thick ice on the INSIDE of bedroom windows. We got very adept at getting undressed and into bed to curl up around the hot water bottle in a few seconds flat.
Come the morning it was high speed getting dressed and downstairs to wait for mum or dad to clean out the fire and light it again. Once lit we huddled close to it to try and get warm.
Yet life went on more or less as normal.
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i remember..i was only 6 but we still had to walk to school even though the snow reached the top of our wellies,,no namby pamby excuses in those days