THIS is the picture that landed teenagers Bob and Alan Whitney in trouble...
For when it was published their father, also Bob, read the riot act to his sons. They had both been given strict instructions that on no account were they to go near the frozen River Severn.
But, of course, rules were made to be broken and brothers Bob, aged 16, and Alan, aged 14, were soon out on the ice floes with their cameras snapping away for all they were worth.
They ventured off shore at Newnham Ferry and were completely unaware they had been photographed themselves – until a picture appeared in a local newspaper.
The arrival of the Review at his home in Cinderford last Wednesday brought a smile to Bob's face and sent him searching for the photographs he had taken on that day in 1963.
One may even reveal the photographer who had snapped the boys. It is thought to be Fred Wicks, of Cinderford, who in those days worked for The Citizen.
The severity of the frosts that winter are revealed in another photograph from Bob's collection which shows the signal box at Bullo where his father worked.