Lived in Clevedon in the 60s and we used to go down to the sea front and watch the diggers and tipper lorries dumping all the snow over the sea wall onto the beach. Dial Hill very popular that winter, can't remember too many casualties but going up and down Park Road to school (never closed in those days) every day was quite dicey!
Regularly peeled back the net curtains from the ice on the inside of the windows. As on another thread the optional cranking handle on my dad's Singer Gazelle was used a few times and that was after we'd dug the drive out again! Happy Days!
Always amazes me when all the Chelsea tractors in London struggle with a couple of inches of slush.