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  • Big freeze photos
  • rightplacerighttime
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    The Grauniad has a load of pics from the winter of 1962 when the Thames froze , here.

    This one in particular made me laugh.

    Jamie
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    There is something distinctly eerie about that picture.

    SpokesCycles
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    I was about to get very cross and say “**** off, big freeze my arse” but since you’re not talking about this week and are refering to real snow, I’ll let you off.

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    cuckoo
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    I was about to get very cross and say “**** off, big freeze my arse” but since you’re not talking about this week and are refering to real snow, I’ll let you off.

    +1

    It seems that what was previously simply called winter is now sensationalised to “the big freeze”, “an ongoing weather nightmare” etc.

    From what i’ve heard & read about winter 1962/63 these terms did genuinely apply.

    mandog
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    That’s a big snow man seeing as there is such little snow on the ground and roof

    Jamie
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    That’s a big snow man seeing as there is such little snow on the ground and roof

    I think I can guess where all the snow on the ground went……

    thekingisdead
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    It seems that what was previously simply called winter is now sensationalised to “the big freeze”, “an ongoing weather nightmare” etc.

    24 hour media has a lot to answer for…

    SpokesCycles
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    My granny and parents tells me about the snow reaching most of the way up telegraph poles in the bottom of valleys where there were drifts.

    That’s a genuine excuse for the country shutting down.

    Although, I think the milkman on skis shows that, really, there’s no need to stop at all!

    pacemaker
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    is that a child on the right or a gnome?

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