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"My brother & I walked near 3 miles to primary school, if lucky we got a lift part way in the posties van. One winter we got there through the snow drifts & some kids whose house we could see from school did not".
It was ever thus. In the seventies I commuted 25 miles each way in my Midget and rarely didn't get through. Often in appalling weather and deep snow.
Invariably those who lived in the town didn't show up for work.
That town was Chesterfield. One of the employees lived at Matlock - a testing drive there in snow. He always got through in his Viva HC with a bag of cement in the boot.
When I was at school in the fifties nobody had a car where I lived, at 5 years old I walked a mile each way to school with some older kids from our road. In the sixties I lived in east London and worked in Alton Hants and commuted in my Midget roof down through sun or snow, ah those were the days.
