In this great video taken by student Raymond Good in early 1963, it shows how the weather was so cold youngsters could walk, skate and even DRIVE across the River Dee when it froze over during The
Big Freeze.
The icy spell is one of the worst since the "
Big Freeze" of 2010, when the mercury plunged to as low as -20degC in parts, and Halifax Home Insurance received 2,500 claims for frozen pipes.
In this year's Call The Midwife Christmas special, Sister Julienne, played by Jenny Agutter, and her colleagues face quite a challenge - the
Big Freeze of 1962.
In Call The Midwife Christmas special, the team face the
Big Freeze of 1962.
THIS morning brought the first
big freeze and parts of the country could see snow in days, as we head for the worst winter in five years.
The couple, of Charlewood Road, Whitmore Park, wrote in after reading our article on the
big freeze from that year.
The
big freeze had seen temperatures fall as low as -19C and there were reports of 15ft snowdrifts.
THE
big freeze has claimed tonight's rearranged William Hill Scottish Cup ties as its latest victim.
And forecasters warned there could be a
big freeze in December as bad as those in 2009 and 2010.