Forty years later people still talk about the snow storms of 1963. the province was engulfed by a 16-hour blizzard on february 5 and 6 that left the country almost completely paralysed.

But the unpleasant forecast is nothing compared to the Big Freeze of 1963, our coldest winter in living memory. Temperatures dropped as low as -22°C during the four-month chill, with lakes and ...

Channel 5 viewers were amazed to hear how resilient Brits coped with the winter of 1962 and 1963, the coldest of the 20th century in the UK, and the worst in England since 1740.