[maxthecollie]

I remember going down Willows Lane to the Grammar School and the water main had burst at the end of Brown Street and was freezing as fast as the water was coming out. Willows Lane was solid ice all the way down past the Railway Bridge. The council workers could not get out of their yard to grit the road. We were watching cars sliding down and crashing into others and bouncing of the walls at either side of Willows Lane.