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Post by Les on Oct 6, 2017 21:08:19 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well: The year of the ice on Mote Park lake was the very bad winter of 1963 when we had sub zero temperatures from New Year till about March. I recall even driving my old car across the lake!!! I was so confident that the ice was thick enough, and it was, luckily!! There were hundreds of people playing and skating on the ice there. That winter was a really cold one, we had rutted ice on the main roads even for weeks on end as the salt and grit just re-froze it was so cold. I also remember the prisoners from Maidstone Jail out in the streets of Maidstone clearing the snow off the pavements, under guard of course!!! There were shortages of everything because all the fields were frozen so no vegetables could be gathered, the trains were all delayed, as were the buses and the outlying villages were cut off completely.
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Post by Les on Oct 6, 2017 21:13:59 GMT
I remember it too. I managed to get to work with out loosing any time. I got a trolley bus to the west station.the the train to new hythe. before the normal train ran there was a diesel/Electric engine ran up and down the line
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