35 magical memories of heavy snowfall from the winters we all miss

As the temperatures begin to change we take an early look at the coldest winters in our lifetime.

The notorious winter of 1963 is always up there as one of the most memorable. It was the year which saw massive snow drifts and the rare event of the sea freezing over.

The winter of 1947 is described as being the hardest in living memory, some readers remembered the bitterly cold winds which swept the region. And in more recent times, the winter of 2009-2010 which was recognised as being the coldest in decades. Other notable times were in the 70s and 80s. These great archive pictures remind us of Preston’s coldest years.

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There were lots of comment about the heavy snow in 1981 and this picture shows a typical street scene during December of that year

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And this photograph shows a heavy fall of snow blocking the lane to Bell Hurst Farm, Roeburndale East, in Wray, nearLancaster, during that winter in 1963