In message , Steve Jackson
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In message , June Hughes
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Ah. Please enlighten me - was the notorious winter of 1947 1946/7 or 1947/8?

1947/48.

Sorry June, I think it was 1946-47!

In fact, the winter didn't get going until late January that year but
persisted well into March - a bit before my time of course!
Indeed, the ambulance couldn't get up the street to take my mum to
(maternity) hospital so the crew had to struggle up the street with a
stretcher to carry her out. That was mid March.
Strangely I've always loved the snow
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