I remember me and my mates were going in to shop for some snazzy straps for our gallus POP SWATCHES!! All the rage at the time!! Didn't realise it was so close to Xmas & New Year tho!!?? 5th Jan!!

Interesting little history of a traumatic time.

I remember at school they took us into the assembly hall and showed us some of this footage on TV. No idea why.

Remember it well the town was a mess

We got told not to go to the town

Ma uncles in dat hes dat police oficer wae the ginger beard

I grew up in the area but have been in Australia since 1973. I had no idea the damage was so bad. Reminds me of my Saturday job in Duncan's in the 1960's. Thanks for your documentary.

I played football that day and the game never even got abandoned ...lol

I live in the town so seeing this not only brings it back when i saw it on the telly at my Grans in Kilwinning but gives me new appreciation for it,

oaft i spot gregs

I got sent home from work on that particular morning and slept most of the day away, it was later on I found out about it, so glad I got sent home as the shop I worked in didn't actually have doors that closed properly!

Hello, my name is Charlotte and I work on the video desk at The Telegraph in London. We'd love to use a short part of this video for an edit we're making on the UK's worst storms in recent memory. Could you please let us know by emailing [email protected]? Many thanks.

Fantastic keyboard action.

one way of washing the crap out,all those smelly wellies,,yeuk,,,,,