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  Paul, people did wear sensible shoes (that's all you could get anyway!) and just got on with it!
  
  I walked to school every day through the winter of 62 and there was never any thought that school would close or pupils or staff wouldn't get in, even from villages several miles away in the Derbyshire hills. And instead of worrying about slipping over we created slides in the playground and had competitions to see who get furthest before falling over.
  
  More recently in the 70s I was on a bus home from Pfizer that got stuck in snow at Tilmanstone - when the driver said we weren't going anywhere we got off and walked the rest of the way to Dover, stopping for a pint in The Archer. Most people didn't even have phones at home then never mind mobiles so there was no phoning home to let folks know where you were.
  
  The one measure that did happen then that doesn't know is that KCC put snow fences in the fields along main routes about ten yards in, the idea being that drifts would form around them instead of on the road.

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