Looking Back: winter weather - in pictures

Icy enjoyment on a frozen pond: children play on ice on Wimbledon Common, London, 9 January 1970
Photograph: Peter Johns for the Guardian

Drivers arrive at their snowbound vehicles on the M62 at the Lancashire-Yorkshire border on 15 January 1987. Many had spent the night at Birch Services near Manchester
Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian

Icy pendants hang from a climbing rose on a sharp and frosty morning, 19 November 1962
Photograph: Graham Finlayson for the Guardian

A man wades through floodwaters in the Kent village of East Peckham, February 1986
Photograph: Jane Bown for the Observer

The milk gets through the snow to village of Shoreham, 16 January 1987. People, including the vicar, Reverend Geoffrey Simpson, carry supplies to the Kent village where roads had been blocked for three days by snowdrifts. Several towns were cut off by heavy snowfall which affected the south-east of England in mid-January 1987
Photograph: Garry Weaser for the Guardian

Shingle heaped on the pavements of Bognor Regis following storms, 7 February 1990. The storm which affected Britain in late January 1990 was marginally less powerful than its better known predecessor of 1987, but caused a greater loss of life because the storm struck during the day
Photograph: Edward Hamilton West for the Guardian

A policeman directs a snow-covered car around Albert Square, Manchester, 17 January 1955. All over the north of England and north Wales police issued serious warnings to motorists as ice - several inches thick in many places - made roads dangerous to travel
Photograph: Guardian

Wind and rain: a storm proves too much for one walker in St James's Park, London, 7 February 1990. The months of January and February 1990 combined were the warmest on national record
Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

Foggy London: heavy fog obscures the view of the Houses of Parliament from Westminster Bridge, December 1994
Photograph: Roger Hutchings for the Guardian

A day in the park: sledgers and families climb the slopes of Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire, February 1963
Photograph: Tom Stuttard for the Guardian