RE your recent letters about the weather. We lived at Scotch Corner for ten years (1959-69). I worked at Scotch Corner Garages and lived in the bungalow just behind the garage on the west side of the road.

When my son was born in 1963 I had to put two sacks of sand in the boot and snow chains on the car wheels to get my wife to the doctor in Scorton, also to take her to Greenbank Hospital, Darlington, for the birth.

That year the snow was so deep that the road was closed and it took us three days to dig across the road to the garage on the other side.

The roundabout looked like a giant iced cake (all this was before the Scotch Corner bypass).

Ralph Davison, Darlington