Images of the 1947 flood in Reading Berkshire, UK www.reading-for...
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@Loverofcats143 жыл бұрын
My grandparents, Harry and Rose Brown lived at 53 Cardiff Road and my parents, me and brother lived in Salisbury Road. So many happy memories, I really do miss my home town.
@adydog5 жыл бұрын
Really nice work but could you possibly slow the transitions down a bit??
@mikepye55163 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these very interesting photos. My mother and her parents lived on Caversham Road near the river and part of their home was flooded at this time. They had been bombed out of their home nearby on Cardiff Road during the war so it was a very tough few years for them. I recall my mum telling me she measured the height of the water each day with a ruler.
@ianthompson92013 жыл бұрын
Brilliant compilation! I was only seven, but I remember being a bit alarmed when Dad took us for a walk by the Thames---probably when the water was beginning to subside---and you could scarcely tell where the towpath was supposed to be.
@jamesavenell23684 жыл бұрын
I lived on Newport Road close to Caversham Bridge & this happened when I was nine year old. All the houses there had six foot drops below the floorboards as flood protection & at its full height the water stopped just below the floorboards, which my father kept a beady eye on. In the road, I remember people paddling the old metal baths along, in some respects it turned into a bit of fun but obviously it was very worrying for the more fragile residents. We just got on with it & people helped each other out with any individual problems. Across the road on the other side there was a large covered culvert that came from the Caversham Bridge hotel side, underneath Randolph Road & along underneath the other side of the road to me. It then progressed towards York Road, eventual continuing across Caversham Road then the full extent of Vastern Road & turning out back into the Thames at Kings Meadow. I know this because during the summer that followed I walked along some its extent. Days of exploration, we did have fun without lashings of money.
@Blinkinsheep11 жыл бұрын
Another masterpice from JohnH. Thank you.
@sewartwebb11 жыл бұрын
Well done John.. Great as ever......
@MelvinBelcher-w2dАй бұрын
We just got on with it
@loyalsmith40964 жыл бұрын
❤ROYAL-BERKSHIRE,the place where I was BORN❤
@Levaloka11 жыл бұрын
28/11/2012 [ 23:10 ] and ...?????????????????// What is going to happend with Nire and Managua C|ose????????????????. Caversham resident :/ Dniia 28 listopada 2012 czekam na zalanie mojej chaty którá wyremontowalem w ciagu 2 lat :/
@BrianFraser10 жыл бұрын
I wonder how they coped? I wondered if they complained as much? Or did they just get on with it? Looks just as bad or worse in some cases than the current day.
@ReadingBerkshireUK10 жыл бұрын
I suspect they got on with it, plenty of smiling faces about. They of course wouldn't see anything like the coverage we see today, no 24 hour news, mobile phones, internet, etc.
@BrianFraser10 жыл бұрын
ReadingBerkshireUK , yep I bet they did. I do think the press encourage people to moan and whinge when they wouldn't have. Of course certain things were preventable, but in the main not. But when people are up to their waist in water and there to help you shouldn't be abusing them as apparently happened in Somerset this week.
@nigelknight66883 жыл бұрын
I bet they just got on with it...different breed of people in those days 👍