Ruston and Hornsby Beevor Street Floods 1947

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Ruston and Hornsby Beevor Street Floods 1947

Media Archive for Central England
Lincoln
1947-03-01
Silent
7m

The winter of 1946/47 had been particularly bad. Large quantities of snow had built up causing chaos across Britain. The thaw struck in March and this amateur film shows its imapct on parts of Lincoln. The Beevor Street works of Ruston and Hornsby were flooded when Fossdyke and Brayford Pool overtopped their banks. There was no work in the foundry for a while, although the film shows office staff, presumably working above ground level, carrying on regardless.

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