04-02-2023, 02:57 AM
As a child, I lived in Sheffield at 750 feet above sea level, on a NE-facing hill. Winters were great fun; we could sledge down the side roads - until the council came along with a man standing in the back of an open truck shovelling out not salt, but grit. That situation lasted until perhaps 1954 or 1955 after which salt must have been used.