Image ID: 25965

Flooding

Courtesy of Burton Joyce and Bulcote Local History Society

Near banks of the River Trent
Stoke_Bardolph
England

Pictured are Dick Perfect and Mary Smith. Mary Smith was farm foreman. In 1947 a severe winter blew into Europe from Russia. When it began to thaw the River Trent burst its banks and brought floods to Nottingham and much of the low lying land in the whole of the Trent valley. Many areas of the City of Nottingham were effected, the water even reached the Victoria Railway Station in the city centre. Fifty thousands acres of farm land were engulfed by water with hundreds of homes cut off from dry land. Two and a half thousand acres of the city were waterlogged, submerging 28 miles (45 km) of streets.

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