My School never closed....

[trt]

.....in the mid 50s and early 60s because of snow when I was a Kid.

We walked to school snow, hail, rain or sunshine and if the heating wasn't working, we were well wrapped up to carry on with our lessons.

[shaneystar2]

I remember the big freeze of 62/63 .It went on from just before the Christmas and lasted about two months . The snow was piled up the sides of the roads . It was up to the windowsills on our house and that had a cellar underneath and steep steps up to the front door so that's some idea of how deep it was .
I lived in Kent then and we had to trudge to school in it whether we liked it or not:).
The Medway was frozen sold and the Navy churned it up with icebreakers otherwise the dockyard would have come to a standstill .

[ummmm]

Cazzzz....I sent mine to Catholic schools. There (was) only 3 lower schools, two middle schools and one upper school in Northampton.

If I have another child I will send it to the school just down the road from me

[McMouse]

My school never closed because of snow and ice even though the outside toilets froze solid. It didn't seem to matter because we had an outside toilet down the garden at home and that was frozen too. Those were the days!

[cazzz1975]

oh lol, I am surrounded by catholic schools here in brum

[ummmm]

We only have two primary schools and one upper now...

They are old enough to walk now...about 2 miles each way. I don't wrap them in cotton wool.....bless them :-)

[DEN53]

Stevie - loved your joke on FB about wife looking through the window - really made me laugh.....xx

[joggerjayne]

I boarded, so getting days off due to bad weather was a bit tricky.

[Barmaid]

Must have been around 1935 but my grandma can remember walking to her village school with the snow up round her shoulders. "Miss" lived in the school house so there was no question of her not getting to school.

[steg]

our school would close at least once a year when the boiler broke down

[sandyRoe]

We each had to carry a piece of turf or coal to school to heat it up. Sometimes the headmaster didn't even light the fire and stole the coal.

[ethandron]

our double-decker school bus got stuck in a snow drift going up a slight incline so what did we do?? we all got out and pushed it, a full bus load of kids pushing. we got to school 2 hours late...but we got there!