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Snow - 1963
« on: 08 January 2010, 22:37:59 »
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI[/media]
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #1 on: 08 January 2010, 22:50:21 »
Excellent clip, Mark! There is something oddly exciting about watching a snowplough hammering into those drifts. I have to say that, on one occasion there, I thought the train would disappear entirely (maybe the driver thought so, too!)

 ;) ;D :y :y :y
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« Reply #2 on: 08 January 2010, 22:51:46 »
My earliest memory is the snow in the winter of 63.I was 4 at the time.
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #3 on: 08 January 2010, 23:00:50 »
modern trains would just fall apart doing that  ;D
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #4 on: 08 January 2010, 23:04:12 »
Proof that the world didn't stop for 3 inches of snow !!

I doubt we have anything with the weight and "grunt" to do that now-a-days ???

Amazing how things change.

Was talking to a guy I went to junior school with (now that is a LONG time ago) and we both remember a long stretch of road with open fields where wheat was always grown. It is still there, and still farmed the same way ... but there is one difference.....

We BOTH remember the erection of slatted wooden fences along the edge of the field every winter, to stop snow drifting onto the road .. I believe the snow drifted against the wood instead. I don't recall the road closing.

Those fences haven't been put up for years now, but what road was the first one to close due to drifting ???  :)

Progress ???
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« Reply #5 on: 08 January 2010, 23:08:52 »
I enjoyed that mark thanx it made me think of my dad and how much he really enjoyed working on the footplate as a fireman and later as a driver......Thanx again :y :y
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #6 on: 08 January 2010, 23:09:30 »
I didn't think the world was in colour that long ago!!!




............. (I'm older  ::)  ::) ) :y  :y
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #7 on: 08 January 2010, 23:14:47 »
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I didn't think the world was in colour that long ago!!!




............. (I'm older  ::)  ::) ) :y  :y

Not when you were a lad..... :D :D :D

I think we have gone soft in so many ways. I sit here with the heating going and has been on since before Christmas, albeit lower during the day and night.  When I was a lad, and in 1963, we had 1 coal fire in the house....... :D :D :D
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #8 on: 08 January 2010, 23:17:18 »
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....  and in 1963, we had 1 coal fire in the house....... :D :D :D

I can't remember,   ::)  ::)



I was 1 in 1963!  :y  :y  :y  :y
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #9 on: 08 January 2010, 23:20:14 »
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....  and in 1963, we had 1 coal fire in the house....... :D :D :D

I can't remember,   ::)  ::)



I was 1 in 1963!  :y  :y  :y  :y

Bet your Mum told you ....... :D :D :P
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #10 on: 08 January 2010, 23:41:18 »
I'm sure that 'elf 'n' safety rules these day would stop drivers from standing on open footplates, have a guard around the boiler so you didn't burn yourslf when stoking it and would have everyone in a bl00dy Hi-Viz vest no matter waht you did!  ;)  ;)  :y
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #11 on: 08 January 2010, 23:47:59 »
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I'm sure that 'elf 'n' safety rules these day would stop drivers from standing on open footplates, have a guard around the boiler so you didn't burn yourslf when stoking it and would have everyone in a bl00dy Hi-Viz vest no matter waht you did!  ;)  ;)  :y

Have you noticed those idiot reporters on tv news  ?? half the time they are wearing a hard hat/high vis jacket interviewing a manager in a suit and tie  with no gear at all !!!  couple of days ago one blonde one even had safety goggles on stood in an office !!!

mad .. the worlds gone mad ....   :(
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #12 on: 08 January 2010, 23:50:12 »
My son was complaining his bedroom was cold last night, I asked him was there frost on  the inside of the windows? he replied no, to which I retorted then it wasn't cold then. When I lived with mum and dad It wasn't unusual for my bedroom window to be totally frozen up on the inside looking like frosted glass you get on your bog window. We had heating supplied by a coal fire in one room only. We had very little money when I was a kid, and in winter my dad used to put one of his full length overcoats on top of my blankets and it did the trick, but it was feking freezing when you had to get out of bed :o
Kids of today don't know there born  >:(
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #13 on: 08 January 2010, 23:53:59 »
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My son was complaining his bedroom was cold last night, I asked him was there frost on  the inside of the windows? he replied no, to which I retorted then it wasn't cold then. When I lived with mum and dad It wasn't unusual for my bedroom window to be totally frozen up on the inside looking like frosted glass you get on your bog window.  .......

You mean when Jack Frost had been!  ;) My kids were dumfounded too when I told them the same thing!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D


....... and our toilet was in the back yard!!!!  :-?  :y  :y  :y
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Re: Snow - 1963
« Reply #14 on: 08 January 2010, 23:58:49 »
Try as I might, I just can't remember the snow and major disruptions of 1963.  I was 17, and therefore I was living on Charing Cross Road and catching a 176 bus to Lisson Grove every day to go to school. 

Perhaps London didn't have any snow.  Or more likely, because we were so important, we got an army of Northern folk in to clear the beastly stuff away before we got up. :) :) :)
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