Colder still in 47
What about 1947?
I was born in February that year and my parents often regaled me with the tale of the midwife’s car being dug out of a snowdrift, so she could assist at my birth!
In the winter of 1947, snow fell somewhere in the UK from January 22 through to March 17.
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It was impossible to get vegetables or coal out of the ground and there were electricity cuts.
When there was finally a thaw it caused enormous floods because of the volume of snow.
Yes, 1963 was very cold, but 1947’s winter had the greater volume of snow and from what I have read caused a great deal of hardship.
Sue Algar
Mantling Road
Littlehampton