|
Post by malcolm on Dec 4, 2010 21:06:11 GMT
;D Just to be topical - reports of winters in 1662-1666 "Three of the five winters in this period were cold, with severe frosts. It is claimed that skating was introduced into England during the winter of 1662/63 and that the King (Charles II) watched this new sport on the frozen Thames." I am looking for any relevance to the burial records across the district to identify factors which are relevant and came across this website relating to weather conditions. booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate
|
|
|
Post by barcrofter on Dec 4, 2010 21:44:09 GMT
So there was global warming back then eh'
|
|
|
Post by malcolm on Dec 5, 2010 1:31:31 GMT
I suspect more like global cooling? Never mind 1663 - lets have some facts about 1963!!! Maybe 1947? Anybody dare to admit to any earlier personal knowledge of Winters pre 1947? ;D
|
|
|
Post by Andy Wade on Dec 5, 2010 1:50:24 GMT
I understand that the Thames froze back then not because it was particularly colder, but because the river flow was significantly slower than it is today, because of their habit of building jetties for houses and bridges with many pillars over the river, causing silting. Nowadays long span bridges and dredging operations have allowed the river to flow much faster. It's unlikely the Thames will ever freeze up again as it used to.
|
|
|
Post by alumpot on Dec 10, 2010 13:29:48 GMT
Lived at top of West Lane in 1963, went to OLV school. had a teacher called John Leedle? He used to take us out for weekly nature walks, tinker Bridge, Holme house Woods, KeighleY tarn, in 63 we used to walk up to the Tarn 2 or 3 times a week, snow on road was so deep it was level with the wall tops, seem to remember it took ages to clear. David
|
|
|
Post by parkwoodgirl on Dec 12, 2010 15:32:52 GMT
I well remember winters before, during and after the war! However, 1947 was pretty horrible My mother's sister came on a visit from Oz., and we had to make a journey to Tilbury to pick her up. Instead of taking a day it took three days.... In Decem ber 1962 I was admitted to St. Johns Hospital to have my 2nd baby. I needed an X-ray and the ambulance tried to take me to Victoria Hospital but got stuck in the snow in Devonshire St., West. I had to be carried the rest of the way. I spent six weeks in St. Johns going home with twins on the 25th of January 1963 - it certainly was a winter I will never forget........
|
|
|
Post by fsharpminor on Dec 13, 2010 9:39:00 GMT
Well of course I dont remember it personally, but I was born in the middle of the 1947 stuff, Mum lost a her first baby, and they knew I was going to have to be born by Caesarian. She had to be rushed up to Victoria by emergency in all that snow, and I was born at 3.43am. I remember the 1963 winter though, though by all accounts it was not as severe as 1947. By the way over here on the Wirral, we only had a couple of very light smatterings of snow week before last.
|
|
|
Post by barcroftlad on Dec 13, 2010 16:01:14 GMT
I also remember the 1947 snow very well. I was living in Alpha Street, Parkwood and dad hadn't been demobbed yet and I was the man of the house (as folk kept telling me) with 3 younger siblings. I had to help my mam dig us out as the snow had drifted half way up the door (it seemed like). Then I had to struggle down the donkey hill to Pitt Street and all the way through town up to Highfield school to sit the County Minor scholarship exams, or 11+ as they became known. I was 10 years old at the time. The kids from the villages up the valley, Cross Roads, Haworth, Oxenhope and Oakworth had no show of getting there and had to be assessed. I had no gloves so wore a pair of my dad's old socks on my hands. Were we tougher then? I don't know but we didn't know any different. You just did what you had to do. Cheers. ps I don't miss the snow at all!!!!! As I said years ago when we took our children up to the mountains to experience snow in NZ, at least we could get in the car and drive away and leave the stuff up there.
|
|