TEMPERATURES in Britain have been colder than the South Pole, but many readers will no doubt remember some equally freezing winters in years gone by.
The winter of 1947 was particularly brutal as people recovered from the war years, while that of 1962/63 will also be remembered for its biting cold and blizzards creating snowdrifts many feet high.
Garth Dawson sent in these pictures taken around Accrington in the 1960s depicting just how cold it was.
The first reveals just how much digging this motorist would have to do to get his car out of this drift in 1963, and the second is of a plucky young lady taking the plunge in an ice bath, complete with icicles!
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