What a wonderful recollection of the Fermanagh Blizzard of 47! Thank you so very much for sharing your story with us.
Kindest regards from balmy Brisbane Janet Fairless (nee Wilson) > On 18 Aug 2018, at 5:30 pm, Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList > <[email protected]> wrote: > > G'day listers, > > My Wilkinsons came from Dungannon and I have just been reading Viola's lovely > report of the Fermanagh Blizzard of Jan 1947, > <http://cotyroneireland.com/misc/snow1947.html> and well can I remember that > winter! I lived in Belfast at the time and enjoyed tobogganing in the deep > snow of that winter. Father was works manager of Patrick & Wilkinson, > Engineers, Belfast, and was able to secure steel runners for our sled; steel > for such frivolities being rare after the war! > > By January '47 the path to our front door was covered with a solid layer of > ice (compacted snow) and I was instructed by my father to 'clear the gangway' > after school (his father being a marine engineer). It was hard going for a > young lad barely half Viola's age at that time and when father arrived home, > I complained how difficult it was to shovel the ice off the slate flags > (paving). "Why not cut it up into blocks and build yourself an igloo?" he > suggested. I asked what an igloo was and he sketched the essentials. I built > that igloo which, like Viola's snowmen, remained long after the snow had > melted and was still there come Easter. 'Twas a cold winter to be sure an' > all. > > We couldn't get to Australia quickly enough and arrived here a year later! > > Cheers, Gordon > > -- > _________________________________ > Nereda & Gordon Wilkinson, Hyde Park, South Australia. > Web: www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon Skype id: neredon > Emails: [email protected] [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list [email protected] http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
