Can just remember it.....I was 6, and living in Swindon

I was just a small child in 1963 and we lived in the country. Snowed in, cut off completely, no school but we had a grand time. What we lacked in iPads, mobile phones etc, we had sledges, jam and bread and a time to come in. We all looked after each other and made sure we were safe. I look back now and think was life a lot simpler then?? Our local Bobbie sledged with us, so did that give a feeling of safety.

I remember the winter of 62-63,I had a eight month old son who had to be carried everywhere as you could'nt use a pram or pushchair but i can't remember buses not running as I had to get my son to his nursery so that I could get to work,I was eighteen at the time and lived at Tadworth,Surrey and worked at Ronsons lighter company in Leatherhead so quite a journey.

I was also six!!!!!! I lived in Ashtead, surrey. I remember walking with my Dad and sister, and Ashtead Pond being completely frozen solid. Coal fires at home then and power cuts! I think we went to scholl eventually and walking home through freezing fog!!!! The best bit was that everyone pulled together. you just don't get that anymore!!!! I live in Wales now and we usually get snow!!!!!

I was 10 and remember we were able to go sledging every weekend . My dad even made a long sledge for 4 .Window with frost on the inside. I don't remember all the who ha with the press forecasting doom and gloom .

I was six at the time and I have quite a lot of memories. I just put being cold down to the fact we had little money. I remember ice on the inside of the windows, and getting dressed whilst still in bed. My Dad took me to the local park and I messed about on the frozen pond wondering where all the ducks were. My Dad would wizz me about on the ice whilst I sat on my little handbag. We had no car so I do not remember the roads, but there were not as many vehicles anyway! Dad made me a sledge from bits of wood and some metal strips but was a bit scared of that!

I was 16 and training as a hairdresser iworked for Marie Delahays which was opposite to my home so no missing work playing snowball fights !!!!!

Yes I was 16 at time had left school and started first job and we lived in a small village on the borders of Monmouthshire and Herefordshire where it was particularly bad. Funnily although I hate the cold I don't remember how cold it was but I do remember the snow freezing on your eyelashes and lips. I walked 5 miles across the tops of hedges to get a lift into my job and then had to stay with my boyfriend as he lived closer to the town until I could get back home. Even then I think we only got half way along good roads and then had to walk the rest.

We lived in Singapore at the time and were home on leave over that winter. It was a real culture shock! I remember building a snowman with my brothers and it was dressed up with my school hat and scarf. One of my brothers held me down and the other stuffed snow down my jumper (I was nine) - i have hated snow ever since!

I WAS 17 SO I CAN REMEMBER IT VERY WELL THE ICE SEEMED TO LAST FOR EVER

I was twenty six and I remember pushing a large pram with my two children inside, wrapped all cosy and warm whilst dad froze.

I remember going to school on the school bus, passing houses in Bacup, where the snow had drifted up to the upstairs bedroom windows!

think i was 14, cant remember it that well,

I was 15 and living in Hertford. One Sunday my father and I were going to church and the bus could not get up a slope on the way, so the passengers had to get off and push it! School was closed but I still had to go to church.

I was 2 1/2 yrs old and my mum slid on the ice and the pram slid down a hill and tipped. My mum used to tell me about it and how terrified she was that i was hurt. We lived in a small village in west lothian scotland glad to say i was not hurt but my poor mum was covered in bruises.

I was 10 years old, my mum sent me to pay the rent which was about 1 mile away, I lost the rent on way trudging through the snow. when I got home, my mum made me go back & look for it, I never found it, was probally buried under the snow somewhere as it was up to my knees

I was 16 years old and started work on the 15th January. Had to walk one and a half miles to the station to get train to work. Got chilblains that year, never had them since. No central heating in those days had to get dressed in the kitchen, the only warm room in the house! Don't remember any buses or trains not running.

Yes I remember it well! I was 24 and my first baby who was then 5 months old. We moved into our first house on 6th January 1963, and had to dig our way in! All the pipes were frozen and couldn't even flush the loo. There was no central heating in it then, and had to dress the baby up in coat and hat to go to bed. We survived though!

lived in belfast shore road then and remember it well ,,we kids had loads of fun,,we had to go down on to shore road to collect our milk and bread of milk van and bread van as they culdn get up hill , it last for along time,

I was 11, and remember going to a different school for cookery classes and was about 1.1/2 mile walk, my fingers were so cold I thought they would drop off!! I also remember scraping the ice off the "inside" of the windows, they made lovely web designs lol

I was aged 20 and had just joined thre WRNS and was stationed at Chatham and even though I was from North Yorkshire, the South was hit very badly. Our intake must have been the only one's in the WRNS who could not march properly, as every were there was solid ice, but be April I was stationed at Plymouth and it was a beautiful spring, such a difference.

I was 9yrs old, and remember that we went to see a pantomime in the Palace Theatre . When we came out it had been snowing , Dad got us home in the car... to the prefab... we couldn't see the 2 flights of steps up to the front door....so Dad carried Mum up the steps to the door ....Happy times xx

I was 10. The WRVS knitted balaclavas to keep the schoolkids warm. Mine was orange, I had some fashion conscious friends who didn't wear theirs but my Mum insisted. Plus the boots! Tiny fur trimmed ankle boots were in fashion - even for 10 year olds. My Mum had got hold of a pair of hideous clodhoppers for me! Probably scarred me for life that Winter.

I was 9 and I remember the school milk bottle tops lifting up with the ice and the birds got to them first.

In 1963, I was 15. My mum and dad were managing a public house called The Malsters, which was situated on the edge of Ranworth Broad in Norfolk. What a magical winter! The Broad completely froze over to a depth of 3ft (1 metre) at least. An ancient gentleman from the village tested the depth every day and finally declared that it was safe to walk across the entire length of the Broad and also safe for skaters. Of course, word got around and at the weekends people from far and wide arrived with their ice skates or to walk across the Broad. It was great business for my mum and dad, as usually it was quiet in the winter - their main trade was the summer visitors in their boats and cruisers. "Whiskey mac" was the favourite winter tipple for the visitors! (That is whiskey topped up with ginger wine). Gorgeous drink! (I was allowed to have a very small sip!) The skaters and visitors came week after week. The ice and snow went on for ever. One morning I remember opening my bedroom curtains and it was "fairy land" indeed. A silver frost had occurred. The sun was shining and all the trees shrubs, grass, snow, and frozen Broad shimmering and twinkling. It was truly magical. It was something I have never forgotten, even though I am now an ancient old grandma!

i was 6 months old in dec 62 i was in hospital over that christmas how the ambulance managed i will never know

I WAS 17 AT THE TIME,I LIVED IN SHARDEND BIRMINGHAM,AND WORKED IN A FACTORY IN LOZELLS B.HAM.I HAD TO GET TWO BUSES TO WORK,AND NEVER THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT IT,MY BOYFRIEND THEN,BUT HUSBAND NOW LEARNT HIMSELF TO DRIVE IN THOSE CONDITIONS AND PASSED HIS TEST FIRST TIME,AND THEN WENT ON TO BE A HGV DRIVER,UNTIL HE RETIRED.

I was in my early teens, and ill, as usual with asthma. However, I remember thinking it magical and wanted it to go on. Voicing this wish to our next door neighbour was a mistake as she replied, 'You would say that if you 'ad to walk on it, my gal!'

I do remember a long walk from Abingdon town to RAF Abingdon, where we lived at the time, in thick snow after a day at school in Oxford. I think the bus got to Abingdon but nothing was going the last few miles. I would have been nearly 13. After that we just seemed to struggle on somehow. I can`t remember being off school.....well, we were much hardier in those days :)

i was 24 in that year and remember driving my first car a riley elf mini up a steep hill to get to work very proud of myself but no one else turned up so had to go back home lol.

I was 17 and living in Stockton on Tees. I can remember ice on the inside of the windows every morning and wearing everyhing I had to go to bed, with my old school coat on top of the bedding as well! Always had chillblains as we huddled around the coal fire every night. The buses and trains seemed to manage to run OK but there wasn't as much private traffic in those days.

I was 10 and lived in a flat in Cheltenham with my mum. The pipes froze (they were on the outside of the building) We didnt have water for three months. The water cart used to come round every day so we could fill up saucepans etc and then mum used to get drinking water from a friend in town and carry it home. We take our tap water so much for granted in this country.

I remember it well my Daughter was born on 17th Febuary 1963 in the maternity hospital Bath Road, Swindon,When i came out the council had cut pathways on the pavements so people could get about. I did not have far to go as i lived in Goddard Avenue. It was really bad everyware. Those were the days .what would it be like if that happened now, 2013.

We were living in a ,cottage in Herefordshire,in a country lane and the continuous freezing meant deliveries were impossible , we did not have any mode of transport ,and to keep our open fire going i well remember being on one end of a crosscut saw and William on the other end sawing atree from our hedge for our only means of fuel and the only heat in the cottage ,this weather continued from Boxing day 1962until march 1963.good thing we were young at that time and able to cope although William had just started work again after a road accident resulting in a com pound fracture of the left tibula and fibula.!!!!. glad to still be here to tell the tale !!!!!!!!!!!!

In Cornwall we rarely have snow, so that winter when I was 13, it was very exciting to have deep snow over Christmas. By the time the holidays ended, the novelty had worn off! Our all-girls school uniform did not permit the wearing of trousers, tights had not been invented for our age group so we just had to get used to being cold. Our headmistress was Miss Bain, a dour Scot, so no lenience there. She thought we were too soft from our mild Cornish winters, so a bit of bracing cold would do us good. By the time the thaw came, the beautiful white snow had turned to grey slush on the pavements and even in the fields, the drifts were edged with black soot from all the chimneys that were smoking day and night. Being a child, I got off lightly, only having to get to & from school on the bus, then slide along the pavements, but for my Mum, keeping the house warm and meals on the table and for my Dad a self-employed builder, unable to get much done in the frost, it must have been a nightmare. They also had to look after elderly neighbours with fuel & food, as people did then. It put me off snow for life.

I was nine,then and can remember lots of snow and ice,in Bucks

I remember it I was 18 had just got married to an airman stationed just outside of Bath. We went to spend Christmas with my parents in Bristol. When it started to snow my husband left to get back to camp and I followed with my sister the next day, A journey which normally took a couple of hours took us nearly all day and once we reached home my sister was stuck there for nearly a month it was a dreadful winter,

We lived on a farm and I had just had a baby, and the snow was so deep I didn't go out for six weeks, spent our time chopping logs for the fire to keep warm.

No central heating in those days.Icicles inside the windows. We went to school as normal no snow days we just carried on as best we could. I think we were made of sterner stuff an today's kids.

I must have had other things on my mind like getting engaged in that winter because although I was 20 I do not remember anything about the big freeze of that year.. Sad init...LOL