JJCMayes1 wrote in message ...
:Cedric must have been one of the longest serving voluntary observers for
the
:Met Office of the recent past. Maybe those who knew him can confirm - I
:recollect that he started around 1946.

I have found this post from Cedric dated 8th February 2000
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z2E2212E9

He wrote: "I have just started my 45th year as a cooperating climate station
and my 55th as a cooperating rainfall station...all on the same piece of
ground! I began rainfall and elementary climate readings (on my own
account) on January 1st 1944, and still have the record book for that year."

It seems that he started reporting rainfall for the MO in 1946 and as
reporting as a climate station in 1956.

Colin Youngs
Brussels