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Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
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- A champagne supernova in the sky
0lonerider
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- tyneside
We still had to go to schoolMaverick Goosespost: 4182022 said:No school yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
classic33
Leg End Member
It'd later be deep enough to cover the ditch on the left-hand side, and that road is sheltered!
Nearest shop is six miles away. '77 it was less than three foot deep up here. Still got to school.
0lonerider
Veteran
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- tyneside
Sounds like windynook, we had to walk over the old wagon way to school then do the shopping at wrekinton then plod home
0lonerider
Veteran
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- tyneside
I can't see that far in the dark
classic33
Leg End Member
As the bird flies, seven miles. Further on a good, clear night.
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Motobecane
Guru
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- Kentish
Blimey. You guys obviously didn't experience the great snow in 1963! I remember waking up in a freezing bedroom in our council house in Portsmouth (I was 11) and looking out the window to see nothing but white stuff. We couldn't open the front or back doors due to the snow piled up.
classic33
Leg End Member
I've had to dig my way out of the house more than once. With snow over the tops of the doors. Tunnel rats, with the first few lots going in the bath, then when we'd a clear top, what'd been trampled underfoot dug up and thrown on top.
1/2 inch of snow and the snow ploughs are out now!!
Let me know when you've to clear a carpark, using a shovel, because the gritter/plough has got stuck before starting.
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The snow piled up above the top of our upstairs windows. We couldn't open any of the house doors, and had to climb out of a bedroom window, and then dig tunnels around the village to rescue the old people who were stuck in their homes. My mum was helicoptered off after a few days leaving us alone (she ran a local hospital, and they needed her). We walked along the line of where the lane was, with a long stick, looking for cars buried by snow. We found a small furniture van, which was completely buried, but luckily no-one was inside.
A farmer got to the nearest town in a tractor after a fortnight, but the chances of us walking 10 miles to school were zilch.
Yeah, yeah............but did you have to lick 't road clean, wi' tongue?
Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
- Location
- A champagne supernova in the sky
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
iiiiiiiiiiitttsss - Snowiiiiiiing ...
I remember that very well because I got a pay bonus. I was 9 at the time and helped the local farmer do his usual milk deliveries around the district - a tough job for which I got triple pay that would amount to 37.5 pence in today's money but was good money back then
