Snow in Kent : The Prequel Saturday 17/01/1987
Monday 12th January 1987 I was still living at my parents in Sittingbourne at this time. Snow had been forecast on the Sunday night, when my Dad woke me up at 0550 I asked if it had snowed? Yes a bit. A Cuppa before we headed out to the shed for our pushbikes "why don't you go first" my Dad said. A bit strange, he always went out ahead of me - I stepped out & the snow came up to the top of my legs! "You Git Dad!". So our normal 10 minute bike ride to work turned into a near 2 hour battle through the snow on foot! We both worked at the Smeed Dean brickworks in deepest Murston, next to Milton creek. The whole area was once a whole host of thriving brickworks & cement factories which provided the materials for the Victorian expansion & rebuilding of London. Just this one brickworks still going now, producing high quality, traditional London Yellow Stock Bricks. These have been used extensively throughout London & the South East for two centuries