“The Big Snow” as it became known in the press, was the result of a cold wave over the UK which formed in early December 1981 and would last until late January 1982.

For many children in the 1970s and 80s, extremes were to be endured; not avoided. Most of our understanding of the world came by way of direct interaction with it, and not by simply reading about it or looking at images on a screen like we do today.