Need Some Help With Research

[Keraunic]

Hi all. This is a long shot but I guessed this was the best place to ask this question. I have a blog about thunderstorms, a very amateur affair, but I need some help. Where would be the best place to get information about weather conditions in the York/Yorkshire area for the years 1959/62?

Somebody (over 50) from that area may remember a particularly violent thunderstorm, I know it was August, it lasted all Saturday night and into Sunday morning. I was only a child but I remember our house being flooded and the lights dimming, but I do not know the year. It was roughly as above as I was very young.

Oh, and there was torrential rain.

As I say, it's all a bit vague but I hope someone can help perhaps in pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance

Jess.