I remember the sixties freeze; my street had deep black snow - black because we're next to a railway and it was still steam engine days. Deep white at the back though.
By the next period of heavy snow in the seventies (think we still had deep snow at Easter in 74 or 75) the steam trains were gone and the snow in the street was white-ish. Grey-white anyway.
But neither time were there many train cancellations etc. I think that the change to electric trains may be a factor, they're lighter and slip on the tracks more.
The only time I know of a school closing in London was in the early eighties; an idiot schoolkeeper turned the boiler off completely over Xmas, a couple of radiators froze and burst, and when the heating was switched back on after Xmas the flood brought down the main hall's ceiling. The kids were ecstatic!
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Date: 2013-01-19 11:13 pm (UTC)By the next period of heavy snow in the seventies (think we still had deep snow at Easter in 74 or 75) the steam trains were gone and the snow in the street was white-ish. Grey-white anyway.
But neither time were there many train cancellations etc. I think that the change to electric trains may be a factor, they're lighter and slip on the tracks more.
The only time I know of a school closing in London was in the early eighties; an idiot schoolkeeper turned the boiler off completely over Xmas, a couple of radiators froze and burst, and when the heating was switched back on after Xmas the flood brought down the main hall's ceiling. The kids were ecstatic!