Britain's Deadliest Winter Storm - 1968

In January 1968, Britain faced one of its most devastating natural disasters when a massive blizzard buried London under 30 centimetres of snow, freezing Big Ben solid, followed just days later by a hurricane-force storm that tore through Scotland with winds over 100 mph. The Great Storm of January 15th claimed 20 lives in a single night, destroyed over 300 homes in Glasgow, and left thousands homeless in what became Scotland's worst weather disaster on record. While the Great Freeze of 1963 gets all the attention, the winter of 1967-1968 was arguably more violent and deadly, yet it's been largely forgotten by history. This is the story of two weeks that changed Britain forever, the blizzard that stopped the capital and the storm that devastated Scotland, told through the memories of those who survived it and the scars it left behind.