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5th Feb 2016Monnow commented on:
This Winter is mild compared with 1963!I remember being at a family party on Boxing Day evening and someone coming in and saying you need to move it`s snowing. We took two hours to drive the 10miles home in an A35 van. After that everything froze until March. It was so cold that my mother used to iron the sheets on the bed before we got in. Only one room in the house was heated. Bedrooms were regularly covered in frost. The river Wye froze over completely. My father was working outside on construction building the Severn Bridge, conditions were awful. Football League matches had to be played mid-week afternoon to catch up with the postponed fixtures. Something you never forget.