Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
21 December 2010
18:3685941I can't help thinking that people do expect too much these days... I work in Ashford and I see it as my problem if I venture out and cannot get back
Been nice knowing you :)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
21 December 2010
20:2085961used to walk 12 miles to collery do 18 hours walk 12 miles back eat my hovis sarnies and that was after batterling 10foot [3.2 meter] snow drifts.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
22 December 2010
23:1686129The first three years at the Grammar School (Lincolnshire) (co-ed), were in former nissan huts, drafty, and heated by circular coke stoves. In the winter the stoves smoked badly, and had to be put out, we regularly sat in our coats and gloves. In the summer the huts were hot and there were wasps.
I cannot ever remember the school being closed because of snow and ice. If too bad to cycle across the town, had to take two buses. Came home for lunch if on cycle. It wasn't until the year I left school that a new school was opened. But we accepted the conditions then, and coped very well. At that time it was one of the top schools for results.
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,388
24 December 2010
05:0786284British Railways snowplough in operation in the big freeze of 1963.
A Stanier 8F and an Austerity back-to-back clear the line at Diggle.
