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Corporation Farm in flood

Courtesy of Burton Joyce and Bulcote Local History Society

Corporation Farm
Bulcote
England

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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