“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.

A Yorkshire firefighter called Peter Hall, who claimed that undamaged prints of a popular painting were being frequently found amidst the ruins of unusual house fires.

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.