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Clyde Street - 1953 flood

Credit to Geoff Wheatley
"The flood pic, shows both pubs in the street, The Blacksmith Arms on the left and further down on the right, The Man of Kent."


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Ruth Bär neé Hammond 30-Apr-2021 07:06
Hi Geoff Wheatly and Trevor Edwards, I used to live in Clyde Street in the 1950´s. I was 4 when the flood came and remember Uncle Frank coming to rescue us as his house in Invicta Rd was high and dry. Uncle Frank took my sister Carol, 3 yrs old on his back as Dad did with me. Mum carried Nora then two yrs oldh and we all waded away. Everyone slept upstairs that night because of the flood warning. I and Carol had sat on the top of the stairslooking at a couple of potatoes and an apple floating around in the water below. I am said to have announced, "Oh good! we can learn to swim in the living-room now!"
One big request my I use your photo in a family chronical I am working on for my four children and six grandsons please??? We stayed with Uncle Frank and our Grandma in Invicta Rd for six months and later moved to Alma Road before going to Scotland 1959 when the dockyard closed.
Graham 19-Sep-2014 00:07
By the way, what did the flood do to these houses? Our house in Jefferson Rd was never the same again. I don't suppose it had a damp course to begin with, but we were forever troubled by damp walls all the while I lived there. Then my dad had the brilliant idea to line the walls with asbestos!
I'm still waiting for the cancer to kick in!
Graham 31-Aug-2014 03:35
Here's a message to Geoff on the Man of Kent page. Now I know where the pub is, and I can remember it very well, although I never went in there. It is surprising how parochial we were in those days. My dad only used the one pub. As kids in Jefferson Road, we never associated with kids from the other side or other end of the street!
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