Winter tires

[the wopster]

Is there any use in buying winter tires or snow chains,socks the snow up here in Northumberland can sometimes get quite bad and I'm just wondering if I will get any use out of the above

 

[the wopster]

Up in Northumberland the winter just gone,from around the middle of November till the middle of January I can remember the temperature hardley getting above-2 and for around three weeks there was about a foot and a half of snow on the ground