Those were the days - rode to school on bike - never wore a coat. That winter I did have a scarf and nearly fell off the bike for the only time diving round a corner and hitting black ice - being young the reactions were good enough to get a foot down as with dirttrack moterbikes and just keep going. Scarf and skid - the only memories of that winter when you are 16 with not a care in the world!
--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Dave Croft <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dave Croft <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] RE: Ice To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 11:38 AM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Reed" <canall...@reedboats .co.uk> To: <canals-list@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] RE: Ice >A great game when I was a lad and the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal froze > over was to ride bikes on it. > Especially daring was to cycle at speed through the bridge holes. The > current was faster there due to the restriction in width which meant the ice > was thinner. So if you were too slow you went in. > > Much later, grown up with a car now, I once rescued a lad who had fallen > through ice which was not as thick as he had thought. We gave him a lift > home, but he wanted dropping off around the corner to see if he could sneak > in without his mother catching him!! > All the best, > Martin Reed. Can you remember the Winter of 1963? I was only 22 and worked in Widnes. The later part of the cold spell was Bright sunshine even though the temperature was about -10C. It went down to -15C in the night. I live in Warrington so I got a half day off work one morning and skated the 10 miles to work on the Sankey Canal (I walked round the bridges). I got a lift home. It wouldn't have been fun in the dark. 8^) Oh to be foolish and 22 again. Dave Croft Warrington http://www.oldengin e.org/members/ croft/ http://community. webshots. com/user/ crftdv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
