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The winter of 1963…..

The most severe winter I can remember in Chilton. All roads were blocked by massive snow drifts. My dad couldn’t get to work in Cowley, and along with a number of others in the village was temporarily employed by Bucks County Council to help to clear the snow.

Dad with our Ford Consul Mark1, dwarfed by the snow drifts just past Harrison’s farm, on the way to Dorton. The road we called “along dry ground” from here back to Camp Farm had been completely blocked, so a lot have shovelling must have already taken place by the time I took this snap.	This is me a little further up the hill (towards the top of “Beechy Lane”) Obviously you still couldn’t drive to Dorton.
Dad in the same spot.	Our car again, this time struggling up “the ashes” from Easington.
In the attic at the Old Forge!	The severe weather did have some advantages. Kids who went to school in Aylesbury had two weeks extra holiday because the bus couldn’t get into the village. I was one of them . John Blake was another, seen here tobogganing in the field we knew as “Padlands” behind the school

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