And here's the way we were.

The start of the year was racked by bad weather and industrial unrest in Britain and political change in the world.

Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness were cut off by road by blizzards.

Gale force winds disrupted electricity supplies and cut telephone lines in and around Huddersfield.

And when the thaw came, bus services to the Holme Valley, Grange Moor and Emley were delayed. Trolleybuses in Huddersfield, however, ran on time.

Two thousand workers walked out of a Bimringham car components factory after a foreman swore at a worker who turned up late. He apologised but the workers demanded he be sacked.

Three thousand, five hundred were put out of work at the British Motor Corporation, also in Birmingham, by a strike at their radiator factory in Oxford. Another stoppage at a steel pressing plant in London affected car factories in Coventry and threatened another 13,000 jobs.

Massey Ferguson, tractor and agricultural machinery manufacturers, agreed with unions for a 40-hour week with no tea breaks. The company rejected calls for a third week's paid holiday.

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was in Africa for talks over the future of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia. In London, discussions were taking place at the Foreign Office about the constitutional future of Kenya. More talks were being held about Cyprus and it was announced that Ghana - Britain's former Gold Coast colony - would become a republic within the Commonwealth in July.

Huddersfield Ladies Circle celebrated its 10th birthday with a dinner at Whiteley's Cafe in Westgate, Huddersfield.

The George and Dragon at Woodhead which had served travellers crossing the Pennines for 300 years was to close.

A public meeting at Lepton agreed to raise pounds 12,000 for extensions to the parish hall with money-making schemes that included housey housey and a football pool.

The Huddersfield and District Temperance Union protested about the use of alcohol on television programmes.

Town, fifth in Division II, were beaten 2-1 at Leyton Orient on a frozen ground. "Orient's policy was based on two main objects," wrote the Examiner sports reporter. "Watch Law and attack. It worked on both counts."

But they bounced back with a 2-1 victory at Leeds Road over Lincoln after the appointment of Eddie Boot as the new manager.