People gather around as a warming helping of soup is served in the open air during the weeks-long whiteout. Picture: ullswaterheritage.org/heritage-knowledge-bank The winter of 1962-63 saw some extraordinary sights across Cumbria and beyond. The big freeze started on Boxing Day and lasted until March. Herald reader Miles MacInnes remembers crossing a frozen Ullswater from Watermillock to Sharrow Bay and Gay Parkin took her horse for a walk on the frozen lake. A line of people walking abreast across thick ice on Ullswater in the winter of 63. Picture: ullswaterheritage.org/heritage-knowledge-bank Gay Parkin taking her pony Ginger Pop for a walk on the frozen lake. Picture: ullswaterheritage.org/heritage-knowledge-bank People gather around as a warming helping of soup is served in the open air during the weeks-long whiteout. Picture: ullswaterheritage.org/heritage-knowledge-bank Locals gather round a bonfire, unbelievably ablaze on the ice, during the extraordinary winter of 1963. Picture: ullswaterheritage.org/heritage-knowledge-bank Thanks to Gay and Miles for sharing their photos of the Big Freeze and the Ullswater Heritage Knowledge Bank where these images were first published. Read more of Miles’s memories at ullswaterheritage.org/heritage-knowledge-bank