It’s cold now!

a blizzard. The 67-year-old, who has worked for UK Power Networks – Seeboard in 1987 – for 52 years, recalled: “The linesmen managed to get me up the top of Detling Hill in the Land Rover.

“The snow was almost as high as the windscreen. It was terrible, I’d never known anything like it.

“The equipment I needed to reach was within walking distance, but the snow was 4ft deep in places.

“I started walking but the snow was blowing all around me, my tracks were covered and I became disorientated.

“I was lost for about an hour and a half, which was frightening, but I eventually found my way back by recognising the shape of the trees I noticed when I left the Land Rover.”

Faversham became one of three places in Britain to have 15 consecutive days without seeing any sunshine, from January 13 to 28, which was a new record.

.... and going nowhere at Blue Bell Hill

.... But travel disruption at Maidstone East train station

Field engineer Ray Morris, from Strood, got lost in a blizzard in January 1987 while trying to restore power at Detling Hill