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<blockquote data-quote="Selectamatic" data-source="post: 3350776" data-attributes="member: 2813"><p>Dad remembers his Grandfather dying during the big winter of 1947.</p><p></p><p>He was sent to a hospital to Liverpool, but insisted on coming home for his final days, "I'll die in this place if I stay here" he said, having being diagnosed at the time with 'poison in his stomach'</p><p></p><p>Back to North Wales he came, and my father, as a young boy remembers helping his father and family to cut snow, one passing it up to the next so the coffin and procession could get from home to the graveyard. They dug in the wayside for soil to spread on the cleared road, as there was no grit in those days (or it was scarce?)</p><p></p><p>He remembers his mother with her feet turned blue, having walked to the shop for provisions, having to uncomfortable walk home with her young daughter in her arm, over frozen tyre tracks left by tractors.</p><p></p><p>The local threshing machine arrived at home, threshing at a nearby farm beforehand. As they finished threshing, it started to snow, Dad remembers the box thrashing in the same farm on the way from there, having snowed for 14 weeks (I think?) with half a dozen Std Fordsons struggling to control the box on the icy and hilly roads.</p><p></p><p>We could not do it today, we get under an inch, which we clear with 4WD tractors, diggers etc etc but the media still cause panic causing the population to cack itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Selectamatic, post: 3350776, member: 2813"] Dad remembers his Grandfather dying during the big winter of 1947. He was sent to a hospital to Liverpool, but insisted on coming home for his final days, "I'll die in this place if I stay here" he said, having being diagnosed at the time with 'poison in his stomach' Back to North Wales he came, and my father, as a young boy remembers helping his father and family to cut snow, one passing it up to the next so the coffin and procession could get from home to the graveyard. They dug in the wayside for soil to spread on the cleared road, as there was no grit in those days (or it was scarce?) He remembers his mother with her feet turned blue, having walked to the shop for provisions, having to uncomfortable walk home with her young daughter in her arm, over frozen tyre tracks left by tractors. The local threshing machine arrived at home, threshing at a nearby farm beforehand. As they finished threshing, it started to snow, Dad remembers the box thrashing in the same farm on the way from there, having snowed for 14 weeks (I think?) with half a dozen Std Fordsons struggling to control the box on the icy and hilly roads. We could not do it today, we get under an inch, which we clear with 4WD tractors, diggers etc etc but the media still cause panic causing the population to cack itself. [/QUOTE]
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