I remember the big freeze of 62/63 .It went on from just before the Christmas and lasted about two months . The snow was piled up the sides of the roads . It was up to the windowsills on our house and that had a cellar underneath and steep steps up to the front door so that's some idea of how deep it was .
I lived in Kent then and we had to trudge to school in it whether we liked it or not:).
The Medway was frozen sold and the Navy churned it up with icebreakers otherwise the dockyard would have come to a standstill .
My school never closed because of snow and ice even though the outside toilets froze solid. It didn't seem to matter because we had an outside toilet down the garden at home and that was frozen too. Those were the days!
Must have been around 1935 but my grandma can remember walking to her village school with the snow up round her shoulders. "Miss" lived in the school house so there was no question of her not getting to school.
our double-decker school bus got stuck in a snow drift going up a slight incline so what did we do?? we all got out and pushed it, a full bus load of kids pushing. we got to school 2 hours late...but we got there!