Posted by Adam Quinan on February 06, 2012 at 07:10:05 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Winter Holiday (photo) posted by Ross Cossar on February 05, 2012 at 16:17:17:
The winter of 1962-63 was very cold in England with real snow. I did not see my grandmother who lived in a Somerset village seven miles away because snow drifts had filled the narrow lanes and the village had supplies brought in by helicopter.
I was going to a new school that January and the normal winter daily school uniform was shorts, shirt, long socks and a jersey. However, because of the cold the school allowed us to wear long trousers during the coldest period and I recently found a photo of my all boys class standing outside the classroom building in their trousers.
In the more normal winters that we had in following years, it was shorts all the time, no more soft concessions.