Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Hey ya aint Chris's brother are ya?:)

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Do you mean the old Grammer School playing fields where there used to be a fair every year?

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

They're drilling for oil there now Jim .

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Very good, I did laugh. But what are they actually doing?
Cheers, Jim.

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Did it snow yesterday?!! :D

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

I took the photo a couple of winters ago .

There was a problem with flooding in the new houses on the left of Wordsworth Rd , past Mount Carmel as you get near to Willows Lane .
They have put new sewage pipes beneath Wordsworth Rd , and a massive tank underneath Mount Carmel playing fields to collect excess water when it rains heavily .
The drilling was to examine the land where the tank was to be placed .

I discovered something new on the web yesterday , the name of the stream that the iron water runs into . I'll keep you guessing , or you may know already .

I hope you are well . Those at 77 are ok .

Cheers , Jim . Colin .

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

No , and I'm glad it didn't .

I used to love the snow up Fern Gore when I was a lad .

Age tends to make you dislike it . I lost count how many times I went on my backside last winter . :eek:

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

I lived on Beech Grove the first 18 years of my life .

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Ya it was quite fun fighting your way up to the Holy Family through 6 foot drifts JCB:D

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Yes , Jaysay , we had fun as kids up there .

One year we had had a very heavy fall of snow . The snowploughs had made a way through Willows Lane . We could stand on top of the snow and look through the upstairs' windows of the Fern Gore bus .

The school bus from Fern Gore to Woodnook and St Anne' s schools was often unable to run because of the snow . There was no question of going back home . We walked to school , and we were frightened of being late . It was a lot different from today .

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

When I was at HF I was very keen on Cross Country Running, one morning, when it had snowed very hard, a couple of us set of on our normal training run, which was up through the fields to Green Haworth across to the Shoulder, down Fielding Lane to the Plough (no Beni they were shut:D) then on high street back to school, we got halfway up the field and were confronted by 14 foot snow drift, about turn back to school:eek::eek::D

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

!4 foot snow drift , I can well believe it .

If there are 14mm of snow these days they start closing the schools .

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Makes me smile evey morning when they say schools have been closed, never happened in our day JCB;)

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

Hospitals , supermarkets , factories , etc. stay open .
Oh , and Parliament . :eek:

Re: Anyone from Fern Gore?
 

We can't expect the school teachers to get into school in this bad weather poor lambs;)