Philip Eden wrote:

"John Hall" wrote in message
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There was one day in early March, 1966 when, following heavy overnight
snow, I was unable to get to school (which was 8 miles from my home),
but I believe that the school was open.
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I hate to correct you, John, but I think you mean 1965 (4th March, just
like five years later).

Likewise, we never missed a day at Luton Grammar School in 1962-63,
although the thermometer in music room, a rooftop addendum and
therefore subject to dodgy radiators, showed just 37ºF in the freezing
fog of Jan 23/24, and we sat there wrapped up in coats, gloves and
scarves singing hymns. These days, of course, Health and Safety
wouldn't allow it ... not to mention the teachers' unions.

I remember being freezing cold after the heating broke down one winter
in primary school in the 1980s. We were just told to wrap up in coats
until they got a gas fire to put in the middle of the room.

I also only remember the school being closed once back in the Great
Snowfall of 1986 but then I wasn't at school that week as I had chicken
pox. The other Great Snowfall of my life was in 1991-ish but I think
that was on a Saturday and had cleared enough by the Monday to not close
the school.

Other than then the school was always open and apart from a couple of
teachers (who came from Derbyshire) we all managed to get there - even
when there was an inch of freezing rain one time which made it difficult
to get up the hill.

This probably seems quite trivial to some, but then I'm only 23.

Jonathan