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i was seven years old at the time

Mr PKL can remember snow to the top of the hedge tops, and it lasting for months and months. He was 5.
What can you remember Jim?

giant snow balls bloking the street, the snow house built by digging a ,large hole
the roof was of tree branches with snow pilled on top, power cuts, sandy our dog who loved the snow, a cold house or so my parents said but i thought it was all great    happy days

Still just under the Gooseberry bush myself in 47, but I remember people saying how bad a winter it was,

I hope that a full health and safety assessment was done before you went into the snow house Jim.

 ;D
some good clips to watch on u-tube to jog the memory.

That's amazing Jim. I did not realize u-tube was around back then.

On flat ground the sow was up to my chest,  where it drifted, it was much higher e.g.

Picture the road sign for a 'school'

When I was travelling to school the snow had drifted so high, that it looked liked the two children (on the sign) were walking on the snow.

That must have made the snow at least six foot deep at that point!

Another point here is;

The snow was this deep and we still went to school now adays 6 millimetres of snow causes chaos!

Ah! those were the days!

Yes - as OC Turnhouse - we were dropping supplies to the Scottish sheep!!

This was before the snow came, with Lord Nathan, Minister of Aviation, on right.

My school was an hour away from home involving two bus trips so I couldn't get to school for a while. Mother had to go to work but we children had strict instructions to stay indoors - the snow was a good three feet deep and we didn't have appropriate clothing or footwear for such weather. However, we thought we would be clever and went out thinking that if we would only step in her footsteps through the garden she would never know. Ha de ha ha! Our legs weren't quite long enough to step cleanly into her footsteps so our smaller footprints were quite visible. We all got a smacked bottom and no jam on our bread at teatime! It must be said that Mother was having to work to keep three children and really didn't need the extra washing and ruined shoes our disobedience caused. Times were hard after the war!

Tricia

I was born in October 1947 so presumably was keep well wrapped up and indoors through the winter!   :)

I was born in 1943 so can just remember being impressed with the depth of the snow, coming in over my boots, and the vivid whiteness everywhere. However, I have my mother's diary of that time, and it sounds like one long struggle to keep a draughty house and two small children of 4 and 2 at all warm, with regular powercuts and lack of paraffin, coal or other substitutes.

My father was teaching in Midhurst Grammar School at the time, some way from our village of Cocking, with only a bicycle for transport, but as far as I know he did not miss any days, somehow. Not according to the diary. It seems he even brought boys home to tea, meaning a big effort to have something nice for them.

remind me of snow that my dad told me about in feb 1955
snow plow could not go up his street do to an unseen Packer in drift his neighs house had a 15 foot drift next to it. for me personal 2010 storms 2 storms in 1 week barely had time restock cupboard before second storm hit 2 days later  2009 had very bad snow or or dec 1992 blizzard to storms same day 5ft or more.
was there not coal strike in 1947? or was it shortage.

I was conceived Feb 48, perhaps without that Winter........................ ;) ;D.

plainleaf...i think it was a shortage of coal?

I was told the shortage of coal was because most of what we had got exported to help pay the Americans, don't know how true that is.

My dad was 16 in 1947, so I don't remember much of that year.

Love these old photos of 1947

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242189/Cheer-At-1947--winter-power-cuts-TV-baths-children-sent-bed-dinner-wasnt-food.html

1947 for me was the year my Dad upgraded his degree in German to Honours level. He had studied French and italian before the war but then worked on decoding in Bletchley Park when he also learnt German and Japanese.

After the war he wanted to improve his German and graduated in 1947, just as his father was dying. Diabetes, gangrene in leg, amputation ........

I arrived in 1949 to put the smile back on his face.;0))

am I right in thinking that it was the winter of 46/47 not 47/48 that was the bad one :-\ no memory of either as I was born july 47.
marg

January 1947 which makes it; 46/47