In message , June Hughes
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Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or 1947/8?

1947/48.

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

In fact, the winter didn't get going until late January that year but
persisted well into March - a bit before my time of course!
--
Steve Jackson,
Bablake Weather Station,
Coventry, UK
http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/bws

In message , Steve Jackson
writes
In message , June Hughes
writes
Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or 1947/8?

1947/48.

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

In fact, the winter didn't get going until late January that year but
persisted well into March - a bit before my time of course!
I stand corrected, having just found a photograph taken in February
1947.
--
June Hughes

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In message , June Hughes
writes
Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or
1947/8?

1947/48.

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

In fact, the winter didn't get going until late January that year but
persisted well into March - a bit before my time of course!

That was what was lodged in my memory - but I put the question with no
prompts.

phew!

Not losing it, after all!

/phew

Not before my time though. My memory was waking up on my seventh
birthday (30th April) to find that the almond tree outside my bedroom
window, which was bloomin' late that year, was covered with a cap of
snow. It was so beautiful - like a Chinese painting - the bare branches
almost black against the bright sky, along with the pink petals of the
flowers all with a Christmas-card covering of snow.

Normality restored.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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from Steve Jackson contains these words:

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

Agree, memory :(((

... and look at: http://www.winter1947.co.uk/
(posted by Martin 11.11.04.)

quote from website:- "THE 1947 WINTER IN HALESOWEN, WEST MIDLANDS
Halesowen Winter 1947 Summary January February March
The three months of January to March 1947 [ a period of 90 days ] represented
one of the most severe spells of weather encountered in this country ..."

Jennifer

In message , Steve Jackson
writes
In message , June Hughes
writes
Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or 1947/8?

1947/48.

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

In fact, the winter didn't get going until late January that year but
persisted well into March - a bit before my time of course!
Indeed, the ambulance couldn't get up the street to take my mum to
(maternity) hospital so the crew had to struggle up the street with a
stretcher to carry her out. That was mid March.
Strangely I've always loved the snow ;)
--
Paul reply-to is valid

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
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Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or
1947/8?

1946/7

Franz

"June Hughes" wrote in message
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In message , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
The message
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I think you will find the winter in question was 1962-63!

Steve Jackson,
Bablake Weather Station,
Coventry, UK
http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/bws

Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7
or 1947/8?

1947/48.

That is incorrect. I left South Africa to settle in England in April
1947, and I experienced the tail end of the 1946/7 winter. Even in
April, the cold could freeze the balls off a brass monkey.. The
1847/8 winter was comparatively milder and shorter.

Franz

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In message , June Hughes
writes
Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7
or 1947/8?

1947/48.

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

In fact, the winter didn't get going until late January that year
but
persisted well into March - a bit before my time of course!

Well into April. I experienced it.

Franz

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

snip

The
1847/8 winter was comparatively milder and shorter.

You can't possibly remember that one :-)

I was only checking whether you were paying proper attention to the
discourse.

{:-))

Franz
--
Martin

In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

The 1847/8 winter was comparatively milder and shorter.

You can't possibly remember that one :-)

Why not? One of the earlier tests for a budding warlock is to
extend youth and life, and I was a witchdoctor by the time that
I was seven.

Don't contradict me or I will turn you into a toad :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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writes

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
message k...

[snip]

Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or
1947/8?

1946/7

Yes it was. I originally thought it was 1947/48 until I looked at the
photographs.
--
June Hughes

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:52:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

snip

The
1847/8 winter was comparatively milder and shorter.

You can't possibly remember that one :-)

I was only checking whether you were paying proper attention to the
discourse.

{:-))

I wasn't. I was in West Yorkshire being impressed by the amount of
snow that fell on Thursday evening. I was almost as impressed by the
amount of rain that fell on Huddersfield on Wednesday evening and
during the day on Thursday.

It did not fall in Wensleydale itself, but the Pennines were
beautifully draped on Friday.
Yesterday there was almost none left

Franz

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In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

The 1847/8 winter was comparatively milder and shorter.

You can't possibly remember that one :-)

Why not? One of the earlier tests for a budding warlock is to
extend youth and life, and I was a witchdoctor by the time that
I was seven.

Don't contradict me or I will turn you into a toad :-)

Are you accusing him of being a prince?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Don't contradict me or I will turn you into a toad :-)


Oh no you won't :-)

Rivvet - Rivvet - Rivvet...

On 21/11/04 1:20 pm, in article
, "Jaques d'Alltrades"
wrote:

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In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

The 1847/8 winter was comparatively milder and shorter.

You can't possibly remember that one :-)

Why not? One of the earlier tests for a budding warlock is to
extend youth and life, and I was a witchdoctor by the time that
I was seven.

Don't contradict me or I will turn you into a toad :-)

Are you accusing him of being a prince?

Mwaaaaah!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)