It was that winter, or the following one, when we were snowed in.
had to walk six miles to work. Only my neighbour and I and two others turned up and were sent back home again.
In the early sixties there was a bit of excitement. My dad worked at Fylingdales BMEWS and they sent a helicopter to take him to work, landed in the hospital grounds at the end of the street.
He did have to stay there for a fortnight before they brought him back for a long weekend at home, and a very generous bonus
