Warm Steamy Snowey Nostalgic Memories...!!!!

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatHLHG2uGY"]YouTube - Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen (with Rowan Atkinson)[/nomedia]

 

The winter of 1962/63 was my last year of school and they didn't close so I had to walk in knee-deep snow to get there. Cajary said that motorways were not around then .. they were ... the M! ran alongside my school which was between Luton and Dunstable.

In the July I emigrated to Alabama ... coming out of college in the October I think it was 1963, the temperature / clock on the town square registered 103F ... I found it very difficult to cope with that ... s00k

 

Thanks Marley for the Footage, it brought back a lot of memories to me as i was working on the railway at this time . i was a fireman mostly on steam engines, as this was early days of Diesel engines. i noticed a few black five steam engines in the footage. it was one of the best steam engines i fired .
i Did not enjoy the snow plough shift, sometime it was rather (SCARY ) but in the end i must say it was the most exciting job i have had in my life. wages were rubbish but the job exciting. .

music .

 

Hi Lady:luv:
Funny thing about jobs. I've done a variety of them. The one I remember with the fondest of memories is working in an iron foundry. Hot, dangerous ( still got the burn scars), poor wages, unthoughtful management and I doubt my lungs will ever recover from the carbon dust we lived in. However, although the work was repetitive, that element of danger made it exciting. We had the usual arguments and punch-ups that blokes will always have but when anything serious happened we all helped each other. An element of danger seems to bring a job alive.:wink: