1963 was what you call bad weather

Remember it well having lost my job and looking for another in all that snow.

Good morning sparrow, how are you? I recall that in 63 there was

no U.K. horseracing for about six weeks in I think in 46 or 47

there were 12 foot drifts in central London.Best of luck.

Morning miprix.  In 47 I had only just arrived in time for that bad winter.
I trust you are keeping well and out of the cold.
I was just talking to someone the other day about being at Harringay dogs with Alfie Stokes who I believe you knew very well.

seaside must have backed a heatwave @ 1/5

I was working on 17th floor of CIS in Manchester before the glazing was fitted.
It was fukin cold as you lit the welding torch  hands appeared from every where.

we have it easy nowdays ,in the 60s and 70s no double glazing or central heating ,fook me when you woke up in your bedroom  on a winter morning the old crittle windows would have ice on the inside ,it was so cold  you went outside to warm up ! course we had it tough ! now wheres that old monty python sketch .

sparrow Alfie was a great lad a fine footballer a great centre forward

for Spurs who played in the days when the maximum wage was £12 per week

when Alfie retired he became a P.E. teacher always looked a picture of

health with his ruddy good looks and his blonde curly hair.

Alfie retired and went to reside in Bighton where he developed Leukaemia

whilst he had this awful disease why friend Alan Hughes looked after him

like a brother, Alfie passed away about 15 years ago virtually penniless

these days playing football at the level he did he would have died a

millionaire.  How times have changed.

Alf was certainly a character when I knew him in the 60s and that record of his 5 goals for Spurs in one game in the old First Division was finally equalled by Jermain Defoe at the club after some 40 years.
His PE days as a teacher was at a school near me in Hackney as I recall but all Alfie was bothered about was the next bet!

My uncle stuck a brush in the snow to show where he car was buried when he had to abandon it on t'moors back in 63.

Back in 63 my uncle couldn't afford a brush never mind a car.

pretty cold where I live, the sea froze yesterday