When icicles hung by the wall, our photographers were out and about capturing the scene.

%image(14805212, type="article-full", alt="Places - F Thatched bus stop covered in snow at Filby near Great Yarmouth. The road sign points right to Thrigby and Stokesby. The scene remains much the same today (2005) with the thatched bus stop still there. Dated January 1950")

1. Filby's thatched bus stop provides a suitable base for a crisp topping of snow in January 1950.

%image(14805213, type="article-full", alt="WEATHER A solitary watcher contemplates the Arctic-like wastes of Breydon Water in early February, 1954. FOA Jan 2017")

2. A solitary watcher contemplates the Arctic-like wastes of Breydon Water in early February 1954.

%image(14805214, type="article-full", alt="BOATS / SHIPS " Motor vessel the Capacity of London was somewhat incapacitated by freezing conditions on the Yare in the same month of that year but along with two other craft she managed to break through the ice at Reedham on her way into Norwich. DATED FEBRUARY 1954 FOA Jan 2017")

3. Motor vessel the Capacity of London was somewhat incapacitated by freezing conditions on the Yare in the same month of that year – but along with two other craft she managed to break through the ice at Reedham on her way into Norwich.

%image(14805215, type="article-full", alt="WEATHER SKATING ON A FROZEN BROAD WHERE ? DATED JANUARY 1955")

4. Keeping reasonably close to the edge these skaters, silhouetted against the setting sun, enjoyed some smooth skating on Filby Broad in January 1955. A few hours later the thaw set in.

%image(14805211, type="article-full", alt="PLACES NORSTEAD SNOW SCENE DATE 12TH JANUARY 1959")

5. The Winterton to Hemsby road was being searched for abandoned cars after a sharp snowfall caused havoc in Norfolk in mid January 1959.

%image(14805216, type="article-full", alt="ANIMALS AND BIRDS WARDEN FEEDING SWANS ON A FROZEN RIVER DATED JANUARY 1963")

6. Inspector Jack Golding of the RSPCA at Yarmouth feeding the swans at Hickling during the legendary freeze-up of early 1963. Money to buy the feed was provided by concerned members of the public.

%image(14805217, type="article-full", alt="Places - C Coldham Hall, usually seen as a busy regatta centre, is well and truly in the grip of this unusual winter. The only sign of movement is of the ice flows, drifting slowly with the tide and two distant swans searching for food. Dated 12 January 1963")

7. Ice floes and distant swans evoke the stark beauty of winter at Coldham Hall in January 1963.

%image(14805218, type="article-full", alt="King's Lynn - Docks, Fleets and Quays Our camera placed high up sweeps across a frozen Alexandra Dock at Kings Lynn where the BTC dredger Breckland is moored and on into the Bentinck, where vessels are discharging their cargoes of oil and timber in mid-January, 1963. FOA Jan 2017 Photograph and caption used in the Eastern Daily Press " Images of King's Lynn" book published 1996 - chapter " Tales From The River, page 160")

8. Our camera placed high up sweeps across a frozen Alexandra Dock at King's Lynn where the BTC dredger Breckland is moored and on into the Bentinck, where vessels are discharging their cargoes of oil and timber in mid-January 1963.

%image(14805219, type="article-full", alt="Lowestoft Suffolk -- Trade and Industry Workmen breaking up ice at Leathes' Ham to ease drainage into nearby Lake Lothing towards the end of a severe winter Photograph and caption used in EDP "Images of Lowestoft" book, published in 1996 Dated -- 4 March 1963")

9. Undergrowth which had been cleared in recent weeks made access much easier to a little-known stretch of water at Lowestoft, Leathes' Ham, which adjoins Normanston Park. Workmen were busy in early March 1963 breaking up the ice to allow water through the sluice which drains from the Ham into nearby Lake Lothing.

%image(14804738, type="article-full", alt="Frost and Snow. Pictured: feeding sheep at Castle Rising. Date: 25 jan 1979. Picture: EDP Library")

10. Feeding time for 150 lambing ewes at Castle Rising in January 1979 as farmer Roy Woods takes them a bale of hay. With their pasture covered by a three-inch blanket of snow these Clun Forest sheep had each day been eating their way through 2 cwt of hay.

If you recognise anyone in the pictures or would like to tell us more about them, you can email rosemary.dixon@archant.co.uk.

To get a copy of one of our old photographs, visit www.edp24.co.uk/buyaphoto or telephone Diane townsend, Mon-fri, on 01603 772449. The photos will be available on the website from Monday afternoon.