On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:27:15 +0000, Jim Kewley
wrote:

Winter '47 was too early for me.

I still have quite vivid memories of the '40s winters.

Running round the block in a snowstorm in my dark blue school mac to
build up a breastplate of snow.

Waking up one morning to find a quarter inch layer of ice on top of
about three inches of snow. I think Manley mentions this one in 'Climate
and the British Scene'.

The vicious slides in the school playground.

The flashes and crackles as the collector shoe on the Southern electrics
bounced over ice on the third rail.

Ice on the inside of the metal framed windows.

The school caretaker topping up the fuel in the classroom stove.

and more.


--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather