A fascinating little tale I read quite a while ago now, but highlighted again on the Yorkshire Wolds Railway Facebook page.

http://east-yorkshire-pages.org.uk/dodger.htm

Incidentally, on the Facebook page are some photos of recent renovation work including some of the snowfall here in the past week.

DM. Langtoft. ERofY.

On 22/01/2016 17:05, David Mitchell wrote:
A fascinating little tale I read quite a while ago now, but highlighted again on the Yorkshire Wolds Railway Facebook page.

http://east-yorkshire-pages.org.uk/dodger.htm

Incidentally, on the Facebook page are some photos of recent renovation work including some of the snowfall here in the past week.

DM. Langtoft. ERofY.

Thanks for that. I've added the link to 1947 website.


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George Booth wrote:
On 22/01/2016 17:05, David Mitchell wrote:
A fascinating little tale I read quite a while ago now, but highlighted
again on the Yorkshire Wolds Railway Facebook page.

http://east-yorkshire-pages.org.uk/dodger.htm

Incidentally, on the Facebook page are some photos of recent renovation
work including some of the snowfall here in the past week.

DM. Langtoft. ERofY.

Thanks for that. I've added the link to 1947 website.

I still have quite vivid memories of the 1947 winter. I was nine at the
time and it was all a big adventure.

--
Alan White
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George Booth wrote:
On 22/01/2016 17:05, David Mitchell wrote:
A fascinating little tale I read quite a while ago now, but highlighted
again on the Yorkshire Wolds Railway Facebook page.

http://east-yorkshire-pages.org.uk/dodger.htm

Incidentally, on the Facebook page are some photos of recent renovation
work including some of the snowfall here in the past week.

DM. Langtoft. ERofY.

Thanks for that. I've added the link to 1947 website.

I still have quite vivid memories of the 1947 winter. I was nine at the
time and it was all a big adventure.

--
Alan White
Sent from my iPad using NewsTap from a 34C Saigon.



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Gosh, Alan, you are the same age as me. I thought I was the only one!
I have only vague memories of the '47 snow where I lived at Tooting Bec,
London. I remember an aunt visiting unexpectedly, causing a minor emergency
of the unprepared meal variety, as my mother thought the aunt wouldn't
attempt the journey on public transport in the thick snow. Two other
thoughts come to mind, the way that dog mess stood out in the snow covered
pavements, and the snow ball fights in the school playground, made fairly
lethal due to a pile of coke stored in the playground for the school boiler.
A whack in the face or on the head by a coke-filled snowball made for a
miserable day. Health and safety? What's that?

--
Bernard Burton

Wokingham Berkshire.

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Gosh, Alan, you are the same age as me. I thought I was the only one!
I have only vague memories of the '47 snow where I lived at Tooting Bec,
London. I remember an aunt visiting unexpectedly, causing a minor emergency
of the unprepared meal variety, as my mother thought the aunt wouldn't
attempt the journey on public transport in the thick snow. Two other
thoughts come to mind, the way that dog mess stood out in the snow covered
pavements, and the snow ball fights in the school playground, made fairly
lethal due to a pile of coke stored in the playground for the school boiler.
A whack in the face or on the head by a coke-filled snowball made for a
miserable day. Health and safety? What's that?


I was living in Camberley in Surrey then. The small lake in the grounds of
the RMA, Sandhurst had ice six inches thick, we had lethal slides in the
school playground, the Southern electric trains had problems picking up
from the third rail which resulted in spectacular showers of sparks at
nighttime and one morning we woke up to find a quarter inch thick layer of
ice on top of four inches of snow where rain above the cold layer had
supercooled on passing through the cold layer and instantly froze on
contact with the snow. We took great delight in hurling large plates of ice
at one another. I think Manley mentions this in 'Climate and the British
Scene'. Each classroom at school was heated by a coke stove and the
caretaker used to come round every so often to top it up. I'm surprised we
didn't suffer from CO poisoning. As you say, Health and Safety...

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On Saturday, 23 January 2016 11:09:05 UTC, Bernard Burton wrote:
"Alan White" wrote in message
...
George Booth wrote:
On 22/01/2016 17:05, David Mitchell wrote:
A fascinating little tale I read quite a while ago now, but highlighted
again on the Yorkshire Wolds Railway Facebook page.

http://east-yorkshire-pages.org.uk/dodger.htm

Incidentally, on the Facebook page are some photos of recent renovation
work including some of the snowfall here in the past week.

DM. Langtoft. ERofY.

Thanks for that. I've added the link to 1947 website.

I still have quite vivid memories of the 1947 winter. I was nine at the
time and it was all a big adventure.

--
Alan White
Sent from my iPad using NewsTap from a 34C Saigon.



--
Alan White from my iPad.

Gosh, Alan, you are the same age as me. I thought I was the only one!
I have only vague memories of the '47 snow where I lived at Tooting Bec,
London. I remember an aunt visiting unexpectedly, causing a minor emergency
of the unprepared meal variety, as my mother thought the aunt wouldn't
attempt the journey on public transport in the thick snow. Two other
thoughts come to mind, the way that dog mess stood out in the snow covered
pavements, and the snow ball fights in the school playground, made fairly
lethal due to a pile of coke stored in the playground for the school boiler.
A whack in the face or on the head by a coke-filled snowball made for a
miserable day. Health and safety? What's that?

--
Bernard Burton

Wokingham Berkshire.

Weather data and satellite images at:
http://www.woksat.info/wwp.html

Outstanding dog muck, obviously.

On Friday, 22 January 2016 17:05:21 UTC, David Mitchell wrote:
A fascinating little tale I read quite a while ago now, but highlighted again on the Yorkshire Wolds Railway Facebook page.

http://east-yorkshire-pages.org.uk/dodger.htm

Incidentally, on the Facebook page are some photos of recent renovation work
including some of the snowfall here in the past week.

It was really another world. A lost generation that still thought of it as the British Empire.