WHITER THAN WHITE

If you believe some of the medium to long-range weather forecasters, we are facing some prolonged spells of snow in Brigg next month, with a much better-than-normal chance of a white Christmas.
We had a few flakes yesterday, but snowfalls of even an inch or two are now pretty rare in North Lincs. Maybe once or twice a winter we have to scape a thin film off our car windscreens.
Blame global warming, if you will. But the thought of prolonged snow set the old memory cells dancing...with a little help from the Lincolnshire Times picture archive, now incorporated into the digital network at the Scunthorpe Telegraph.
Bryan Robins, still living in retirement in Brigg and a former long-serving council, took this picture in 1978 of youngsters enjoying themselves on the bank at the Davy Memorial Playing Field.
There was some severe weather that winter, and I recall a famous photo of massive icicles which formed on the side of a cooling tower on Scunthorpe steelworks, near to where I was then working in the British Steel PR department.
As a child I can recall the terrible winter of 1962/3, and older Brigg residents will recall the awful one of 1947, made worse by post-war rationing and shortages of coal.
If you believe today's weathermen (and women) perhaps it's time to stock up a few provisions in case we get snowed in next month.
Hopefully over Christmas!