I can remember the sea freezing at Eastbourne, when I were just a little lad in the late 40s and then again later on, in the mid 50s IRC.
To be honest - it was the first four or five feet out from the beach and, although we were all daring each other to walk on it, none of us were quite that daft enough to try it <grin>! Eventually the tide, and the effects of the slight swells on the sheet ice, turned it into something resembling the 'lumpy porridge' that my father used to make :-))> Trevor. Ray noted ... In January 1981 I was moored on "Lupin" at the bottom of Ware lock on the Lea, and on getting up to open a window because the stove + 2 Aladdin paraffin lamps were making it too hot in the cabin (!) I noticed that the river was freezing as it came over the weir there. The flowing section was about 4 inches deep in ice during that frost. I have in my youth broken ice 3 inches thick on the canal section above Waltham Common Lock (With someone else's boat!)
