In message , John Hall
writes
In article ,
Peter Thomas writes:
I'm puzzled and possibly embarrassed by the conflict between my
recollection of the first evening of heavy snow on New Years Eve at
Woking and the more general recollection that snowed earlier, Boxing
Day or so.

My memory insists that the major event of very heavy snow was the night
of 31/12/62 - 1/1/63
.....

Have I simply forgotten? Was there snow in west Surrey earlier?

I think you may have it confused with the previous year. There was heavy
snow on New Year's Eve, 1961.

Could well have done - thank you, John. It was quite a while ago.

In 1962, there was heavy snow on 26-27 Dec
and then again on 29-30 Dec. (And there was some on the evening of the
31st as well, but not as heavy as the other two falls.)

So '62 or '63 could equally have been the winter of sledging down
unmade roads and failing to negotiate the left-hander after the steep
section. As for cycling after school-friends and having them turn to see
the bike slide from beneath me on the ice. And walking on the frozen
Basingstoke Canal from Horsell to Woodham - we had proper winters then.
--
Peter Thomas