Yes and every day we poured concrete throughout! Heated aggregates and water and formwork. mind you we couldn't start 'til mid morning and finished around 3. Crane driver was the coldest as he had to keep his window open!!
Oh, yes. The only football game in Glasgow on New Year's Day was at Hampden, which then had a 100,000 plus capacity.
200 of us huddled together for warmth in the main stand, to see a goalless draw between Queens Park and Albion Rovers.
Yes I was 15 and came out of hospital Xmas week with my leg in plaster from top to bottom for 6 weeks. Very scarey trying to get about on my walking sticks.....................
I remember both, in 1947 going to infant school and the snow going over the top of my welllies. In 1963 I'd just got married and lived at the top of a steep hill. It was always horrendous in bad weather, we used to get pea-souper fogs then as well.