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My Dad was stuck in work at Port Talbot for 4 days
Mrs Gowerjack remembers helicopters dropping supplies at Rhossili
Proper snow
Not like the shite we get nowadays
I walked to Port Talbot steelworks from Baglan to be told there was no need for me to be in because I was an apprentice and I could go home. Walked to Port Talbot town centre by lunch time and spent the day in the Old Vic.
The first ever recipient of a Planet Swans Lifetime Achievement Award.
The big freeze of the winter of 62/63 is one I will always remember, , rivers froze, huge amounts of snow fell and villages were cut off. It lasted for a couple of months and nothing has been seen like it since. I can remember that you could walk along the river Tawe for miles, it was completely frozen, the sea front of Swansea bay froze. There were 30 foot snow drifts at the he top of the Swansea Valley, the snow didn’t clear from the mountains until June.
That's one of my earliest memories, although I would have placed it a few years later. There is a picture of me knee deep in it. Never seen anything like it since.
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Snow 36 years ago on 18:58 - Jan 9 with 3658 views
The big freeze of the winter of 62/63 is one I will always remember, , rivers froze, huge amounts of snow fell and villages were cut off. It lasted for a couple of months and nothing has been seen like it since. I can remember that you could walk along the river Tawe for miles, it was completely frozen, the sea front of Swansea bay froze. There were 30 foot snow drifts at the he top of the Swansea Valley, the snow didn’t clear from the mountains until June.
Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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Snow 36 years ago on 06:24 - Jan 10 with 3398 views
I remember it very well, mate. A few of us kids took it on ourselves to go around the houses making sure that the pensioners were alright, if they needed coal brought in or had run out of any essentials. We didn't need to be asked.
I wonder if kids today would do that? I'd like to think so.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Snow 36 years ago on 22:27 - Jan 11 with 3119 views
I was a kid in Maesteg at the time...the place was totally cut off and the Army had to come in with provisions.
There was a shopkeeper who quadrupled the price of bread trying to profiteer from the situation...needless to say she did nt last in business long after that.
PROUD RECIPIENT OF THE THIRD PLANET SWANS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
"Per ardua ad astra"
I was a kid in Maesteg at the time...the place was totally cut off and the Army had to come in with provisions.
There was a shopkeeper who quadrupled the price of bread trying to profiteer from the situation...needless to say she did nt last in business long after that.
People like that are the reason tar and feather came to be.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Snow 36 years ago on 22:34 - Jan 11 with 3109 views
I was a kid in Maesteg at the time...the place was totally cut off and the Army had to come in with provisions.
There was a shopkeeper who quadrupled the price of bread trying to profiteer from the situation...needless to say she did nt last in business long after that.
As was I, although was 3 at the time so would have probably been taken up Garth Mountain with a crappy sledge bought from Lockyers, with my brother and dad.
I was a kid in Maesteg at the time...the place was totally cut off and the Army had to come in with provisions.
There was a shopkeeper who quadrupled the price of bread trying to profiteer from the situation...needless to say she did nt last in business long after that.
Maesteg wasn't the only place it happened. The same thing happened where I lived.