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The Winter of 1955 That Froze Britain Solid

Remember when Britain nearly froze solid? February 1955 saw temperatures plummet to minus 25 degrees at Braemar, the coldest reading since 1895. The winter of 1955-56 brought two brutal cold spells that buried Scotland under three feet of snow and triggered Operation Snowdrop to rescue villages cut off by 30-foot drifts. From London's terrifying darkness in January when pollution created a smog blackout, to Cornwall getting 16 hours of continuous snowfall, this wasn't just any British winter. Families huddled around single coal fires with no central heating, milk bottles froze solid, and the RAF dropped emergency supplies to trapped communities. This is the story of the coldest February on record, when record low temperatures tested every ounce of British resilience, and somehow, people pulled together to survive the freeze that nobody who lived through it ever forgot.