Mark Davison published Remembering Surrey's big freeze of the 1960s, when snow in Hurst...

When families get together for the long festive break, there is usually a fair bit of reminiscing about events of the past.And the recent frosts and possible forthcoming snow may well have caused some people to think back 54 years to the long, cold winter of 1962-3.The freeze-up lasted two months following two memorable snowfalls in the last week of December 1962.Christmas Day 1962 was a crisp, sunny day with a hard frost and the temperature by lunch time had nudged up to a couple of degrees...

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