SIR – With reference to Remember When? (T&A, December 10), reporter Emma Clayton mentions the snowfalls of the past and asks where the snow was eventually dumped.

The worst winter in living memory was surely that of 1946/7 just after the war. I remember it had been a normal uneventful winter until about January 20, 1947, but from then on things changed dramatically. The temperature plummeted and it snowed and snowed with no appreciable let-up throughout the whole of February and into March.

One particular memory stands out – I recall going to Lister Park on Sunday, March 16, and people were still skating on the lake there, which was frozen solid. It was not until the end of March that there was any real thaw, and piles of snow were still to be seen by the side of the roads in the outskirts of the city until mid-April.

To compound it all, deliveries of coal were interrupted (there were very few gas/electric fires then) and food was still rationed – a legacy of the war. So life was pretty dismal. There were also daily gas and electricity cuts.

The snow – at least in the city centre – was eventually cleared, mainly manually – the unemployed were dragooned into this.

Derek Mozley, Moorhead Terrace, Shipley