SOMEONE looking at this snowman picture might recognise himself from his carefree boyhood days.

The photograph was taken near Smithills Dean Road in February, 1954. I bet the boys wished they'd had long pants on! The other photograph shows a picturesque frozen cascade formed by icicles clinging to the rock face of Old Town Quarry, Harwood, in 1963.

Incidentally, on the same page on which this latter picture appeared was a story asking: "Why can't all Bolton Corporation buses have heaters in them? Several complaints have been received from passengers during the recent very cold weather, who have declared that to ride in an unheated Corporation bus can mean frozen hands and feet by the end of the journey. Sometimes inside the roof and windows are covered with a coating of ice."

Help was seemingly on the way. All new buses were fitted with heaters, and some of the three-to-four-year-old buses had also been fitted, said a Transport Department spokesman. But I am sure that many of us remember the days of unheated vehicles, particularly cars. It's amazing what we take for granted these days.