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Title: the sheffield flood
Post by: maidmarianoops 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

Title: Re: the sheffield flood
Post by: julianb 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

Title: Re: the sheffield flood
Post by: Dalum 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

Title: Re: the sheffield flood
Post by: exiledtyke 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