The great snow of 1978

Uisdean Vass recounts his personal experience of one of the deadliest snow storms across the North of Scotland, with four lives lost as a direct result of the snow blizzard and thousands of people without electricity, telephone and supplies for more than five days.

I suppose I don’t remember much about Friday, 27 January 1978, before 7:00 pm on that day. I was a sixth-year pupil in Golspie High School. . .

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