"Mike" wrote in message
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Yes thanks indeed. Someone else, and I am unable to find it now I want it
:-(( added that it may have been either the 8th or the 10th, but who is
arguing? Not me, just grateful that I havn't been dreaming it for the last
60 odd years!!

My sister is 5 years older than me and I feel sure she said that she
pushed
my onto, as opposed to 'into' the Thames when I was in my pram.

I found the following which suggests that the river did not freeze all the
way
across at Teddington during any winter between 1895 and 1963. I am,
of course, happy to defer to anyone who knows any better.

http://www.the-river-thames.co.uk/weather.htm

Philip Eden