Whats your memoreys of the winter of 19 47

[betula]

I did not come along till 54 but my Mum remembers her Brother taking down internal doors and shelves so they could burn them for heat,things got so desperate. :(

[betula]

[petefj]

I was 8 years old in '47.  I remember waking up in Cardiff, South Wales, and we couldn't get out of the front or back doors due to snow drifting up against them.  My Uncle had to climb out of a downstairs window and clear the doors so we could get out and use the toilet which was  outside.
I remember watching the kids playing outside in the snow.  I wasn't allowed out as I suffered with tonsillitis and in those days that infection could be a killer.  Remember it was only just the beginning of the anti-biotic revolution, and they were very scarce.

I remember that the snow seemed to be around for weeks, and in all of that time I had to stay inside.

So my memories of those days?  Misery and boredom.

Peter

[Poppy Mole]

Being carried on my Dad's shoulders & demanding to be put down, which he did & the snow came over my head

[Grandma]

Although I was only just over 3 years old at the time I remember 08 February 1947 very clearly.
At our house in Portsmouth, Dad had shovelled a path through the snow from the front door to the kerb - I couldn't see over the 'mountains' on each side as I walked down to the road. With a little bag of clothes and toys, I was sent off - alone - in a taxi to go and stay with my Nan.
I was returned home, again alone in a taxi, a few days later to find that I was no longer an only child. In my absence my mother had produced a fat, ugly, little brother for me.  :o
Heaven knows how the taxi managed to get through that much snow - or how the midwife got there on her bike!

[bridgehouse]

I remember fuel was so hard to get, my mom said the coalman sold our ration on the black market, [I had to go and wait for the coal to come in to the yard, and then run home and tell mom. who ordered it at once, but thats another story]
My dad went into the fields and the lanes at the back of the house, and cut down a small tree so we could have some warmth. but that was not to be he had to have some help to get the tree home, and while he was away someone pinched it, so no fire for us, That year was hard, but us children loved the snow and we were out most of the day in it ,we had two buses on our local roads, and both got snowed in for ages, and we had to walk/
    June.