Look at all these scenes captured by our photographer, 59 years ago this month.
They include cars under a deluge of snow on the Grindon Estate, and a crash on the A19 amid nine inches of slush.
A massive clear-up operation was needed - but not before our Sunderland Echo photographers grabbed all of these photos.
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