P.Chortik wrote:

emories 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.....


I spent that winter commuting 30 miles by motorbike from Largs to work at
Prestwick Airport. Although it was a cold winter it was very dry and almost
completely snow-free in that part of the country.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
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