I well remember 1955.

We were packed off to a seaside cottage for the entire duration
of the school holidays because there was a lot of poliomyelitis
about, and it was before the vaccine was developed against it.
My parents reckoned we would be safer out of the town.

It was the first time we experienced severe sunburn. We spent a
couple of days in a darkened room feeling utterly miserable, and
then several more days itching as the burnt skin peeled off.

Apart from that we spent a fair proportion of the summer falling
off rocks and out of boats and kayaks into the sea. Magic!

I have no particular memories of the weather in 1959, however.
That summer I dislocated my knee falling down a cliff, and I
spent quite a lot of time afterwards just standing in the sea,
because the cold water numbed the pain.

Anne