Floods Of '68

[Louby]

found this on the BBC today.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2009/11/stock_shots_from_the_archive_floods_of_1968.html

Thought some of you might be interested.

[Methuselah]

Thanks for that, Lulu...I remember that summer!

[Louby]

Being a young whippersnapper myself, I don't remember it.

I think that is why I find old weather events very fascinating.

[Methuselah]

Being a young whippersnapper myself, I don't remember it.

I think that is why I find old weather events very fascinating.

Less of the 'old'! Where's the 'Zimmer' smilie???

[jethro]

Drive over the bridge at Pensford on my way to work, there's a bench mark on one of the walls marking the water level - scarily high! The buggers hid a new speed camera last week, just around the corner from the bridge.

It pays to live on top of hills in Somerset, the valleys seem to flood all the time.

[glykosallyb]

Just come across this thread and thought i could add something.I come from dartford and remember the floods well.My dad was a taxi driver there in the sixties and liked to take cine films.I am in the process of uploading them to you tube,and one of them contains some film of the flood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZ_avu7Uqk

i am not very good at editing yet so you have to go to 0:28 and watch to the end.

hope you enjoy

sally X