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Offline maidmarianoops

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the sheffield flood
« on: Thursday 29 September 05 09:05 BST (UK) »
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/k_lightowler/a_lightowler.htm


this site has names of whole families killed in the flood.
I was born near sheffield but i had never heard of this disaster
sylvia
notts/derbys clark
      "        "      stenson
        "       "    nicholson
       "     "        jarvis
                         castledine
    rhodes

 
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Re: the sheffield flood
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 September 05 19:25 BST (UK) »
My "Popular History of Sheffield" (J Edward Vickers) states that

"The result of seven hundred million gallons of water pouring down from Bradfield was that 270 people were drowned, 798 houses were completely destroyed and 4357 were flooded causing damage.  Also lost were 693 animals and 15 Stone Bridges."

I live up the hill rather than down in the dale!

JULIAN
ESSEX  Carter, Enever, Jeffrey, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrell, Staines, Stephens, Surry, Theobald HUNTS  Danns KENT  Luetchford, Wood NOTTINGHAMSHIRE  Baker, Dunks, Kemp, Price, Priestley, Swain, Woodward SUFFOLK  Rose SURREY  Bedel, Bransden, Bysh, Coleman, Gibbs, Quinton SUSSEX Gibbs, Langridge, Pilbeam, Spencer WILTSHIRE  Brice, Rumble

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Re: the sheffield flood
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 11 October 05 20:09 BST (UK) »
To complement Karen Lightowler's excellent Sheffield Flood pages, there is the growing database of the Flood Claims at http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sfca/

Hugh in Sheffield

ps this should really be in the West Riding section
Sheffield look-ups, Cemeteries etc

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Re: the sheffield flood
« Reply #3 on: Friday 21 July 06 12:04 BST (UK) »
My dad, born in Halifax always used to refer to something rare or unlikely to happen  as "once every Sheffield Flood"  now I know where this came from
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