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Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-02-01T09:59:05+00:00

I have been listening to Radio Norfolk as well ... I wonder if they will bring a CD out like they did with "Treasure Hunt" ?

I have been thinking back a bit and I have been to a lot of the places they mention Kings Lynn, Heacham, Hunstanton, Wells, Cromer, Sea Palling, Great Yarmouth... I thought at the time I was at these places how lovely they are, but listening to the people who were in these places in the 1953 floods ... Just how remote some of these places are and how hard it would be to get help to them even these days... How much tougher people were in those days than they are now, and how much we take for granted in the 21st century.

Statistics: Posted by chenrezig — 01 Feb 2013, 09:59

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-02-01T09:36:21+00:00

than999 for this information

Statistics: Posted by wendy — 01 Feb 2013, 09:36

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-02-01T09:27:05+00:00

Local radio norfolk have been interviewing people all week on their tea time show,
it has been heartbreaking to listen to and should always be remembered.

ca99

Statistics: Posted by Myrna — 01 Feb 2013, 09:27

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-02-01T09:23:24+00:00

I don't remember them, I was only 6

Statistics: Posted by annie — 01 Feb 2013, 09:23

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T19:53:59+00:00

Anyone here who remembers the storm still refers to it as "the January Gale" - combined with the exceptionally high tides in the North Sea, the damage was horrendous.

Statistics: Posted by daisy — 31 Jan 2013, 19:53

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T19:32:43+00:00

I don't remember them

ca99

Statistics: Posted by Misspears — 31 Jan 2013, 19:32

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T18:46:41+00:00

than999

Statistics: Posted by Misspears — 31 Jan 2013, 18:46

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T18:42:19+00:00

go90

Only A toilet remained in The New Hunstanton pic.

Statistics: Posted by maureenho — 31 Jan 2013, 18:42

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T18:30:23+00:00

I was too young too, but my Great-Aunt at Wisbech had many friends in the area, how i wish I had asked her about it when she was alive...

Statistics: Posted by chenrezig — 31 Jan 2013, 18:30

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T18:28:52+00:00

Bumping this up ... We have had so many post today, and I posted this so early this am it slipped down ...

Statistics: Posted by chenrezig — 31 Jan 2013, 18:28

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T18:12:22+00:00

I was to young to remember the floods, but we had relatives who lived along the North Norfolk coast at the time.

ca99

Statistics: Posted by maureenho — 31 Jan 2013, 18:12

Re: On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T18:06:45+00:00

ca99

Do you have any memories of this terrible time.
I remember we drove to Ingoldmills near Skegness, and saw such terrible things. Terrible and a dead parrot. awful time.
We only was allowed into the area because my step father said he was visiting a relative, but when we got through the police barricades, he told us she had been dead for about ten years.

they were wooden chalets that people lived in. it was awful to see.

Statistics: Posted by wendy — 31 Jan 2013, 18:06

On This Night ... The 1953 Floods

2013-01-31T08:24:06+00:00

Statistics: Posted by chenrezig — 31 Jan 2013, 08:24