"John Hall" wrote in message ...

I've just stumbled on a link to a PDF file of an interesting set of
slides (by the look of it) produced by Stephen Burt on the winter of
1962-3:

https://www.rmets.org/sites/default/...32013-burt.pdf
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John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp,
a former director of the Bank of England
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Memories of mine from that Winter in Merstham Sy include my father
discovering frost lingering within the exposed surface coal/coke bunkers
located outside the house as late as the end of April.
In late January of 1963 I had to take one of my 11-plus exams in Wellingtons
that were overlaid with plastic bags that went up higher than the footwear
otherwise the snow/ice would have
got inside them.That morning I think the temperature was down to -16c and on
reaching school the hands and feet were numb from the cold and I remember
one 'teacher' chastising me for resting my mittened hands on a roasting hot
radiator ,exclaiming I would get chilblains.....