Someone just emailed me this taken up the road, to be honest I think it was worse in 1979 they were digging out the same stretch with a tractor and front loader and almost made a tunnel through but at the last minute it collapsed.
The drifts indicate a prolonged spell of subzero strong winds from the east

The same house in early March 2018 when conditions were similar but only for 2 or 3 days

My memories include an igloo built by my father even in SE London. Less happily, not only bitter cold but with a fuel shortage, trying to keep warm on sweepings from the coal bunker.

A mate in his mid-80s recalls jumping over the "overhead" electricity wires in his village in the Lincolnshire Wolds!  It was a simple matter to walk up to them and leap!

R.