Weather : past adverse weather in Birmingham

[Brumlad 1962]

Over a foot of snow all over Brum

 

[Brumlad 1962]

 

[Pedrocut]

15 years ago the tornado...

Birmingham tornado 15 years on: 'A scene of total devastation'

People in Birmingham remember the impact of a tornado that tore through the city 15 years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Not Birmingham but typical of the smogs of December 1952 from the BBC History magazine...

 

[Richard Dye]

Not Birmingham but typical of the smogs of December 1952 from the BBC History magazine...

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And yes Pedro, I remember those smogs!

 

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August 1939...

 

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The wicket at Edgbaston, picture from the Evening Despatch, August 1939.

 

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Birmingham Gazette, August 1931.

 

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Following on from Viv’s Thread and the flooding at Stonehouse Farm, Wood Lane Erdington on 30th August 1931

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...e-farm-wood-lane-erdington.53672/#post-733012

 

[Pat Downey]

Come on someone must know about the storms of 1947 :lol:

Remember it well. Snow over a foot deep. No school. Played for days in the back yard of the Perry Barr police station where my dad was the resident inspector. Made a super slide, very icy, made all the bobbies nervous.

 

[Pedrocut]

One for OldM…January 1939 in South Yardley…just look at that telegraph pole !

 

[Vivienne14]

‘Sailing’ along Brookvale Road. Viv.

Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

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Island Road, Handsworth. December 1990.

 

[mw0njm.]

i remember the blizard in 1981 i was on nights and had to go out to breakdowns snow related. trying to dig and drag cars out of drifts at the nec some people left there windows open a bit and the car was full of fine snow inside.

 

[nickcc101]

i remember the blizard in 1981 i was on nights and had to go out to breakdowns snow related. trying to dig and drag cars out of drifts at the nec some people left there windows open a bit and the car was full of fine snow inside.

At least the diesel waxing problem had been solved by then introducing winter grade diesel which changed the cold plugging point (waxing/freezing) Unlike the winter of 62/63 when we spent weeks going out to HGV’s to bypass chassis mounted fuel filters.

 

[Vivienne14]

A bit risky, but let’s hope the pond was frozen solid in 1910.




And reducing risks from the enemy in 1940, reporting late on weather conditions. Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

Remember heading along the #28 route which wasn’t running in the 1960s, walking all the way from Kingstanding to Marsh Hill. The worst stretch was up Bleak Hill. Boots were inadequate, once snow melted on them, they drenched the boots. Couldn’t put them on the radiator at school to dry as they cracked the leather and shrank. At home we used to put newspaper in them to dry them out. But invariably they weren’t dry the next day so it meant putting on wet footwear again. Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

The serious side of adverse weather. Dreadful conditions in the winter of 1977. Remember how treacherous the entrances to underpasses could be until gritted ? Might have been safer to cross the road. In the ‘region’ snow up to 8ft !



And the humorous side. Viv

Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Dinger]

Friday 28th June 1968 - A Tornado hit Barnes Hill, Weoley Castle, parts of Harborne. It took the roofs off many houses and demolished the brick pillar outside the old California Inn on Barnes Hill.

 

[Pedrocut]

June 1959, Birmingham Weekly Post.

 

[Astoness]

somewhere in northfield...the bad winter of 62/63 i remember it well

lyn

 

[Richard Dye]

somewhere in northfield...the bad winter of 62/63 i remember it well

lyn

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That looks REALLY bad!

 

[Astoness]

That looks REALLY bad!

its a hour long but worth watching...and we moan now

 

[John L]

Corporation Street on 8th December1990, was it really safer in the road, than on the pavement?