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Floods & storms, 1947

1,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 85

Flooding In Britain "Worse And Worse"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 March 1947 · page 6

LONDON, Saturday.--The Automobile Association describes the flood situation in Britain as getting worse and worse. ROADS in 15 counties are under water…

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Londoners Row Through Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 March 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The Automobile Association describes the flood situation in Britain as getting worse and worse…

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After-Thaw Floods Menacing London

Truth · Sunday 16 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.—After-thaw floods have caused the Thames to burst its banks and the flooding is disastrous. East End residents have been yarned to boil all drinking and cook-…

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Six die as British floods worsen: rising waters isolate Scotland LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 16 March 1947 · page 1

Six people, including three babies, have been drowned in the steadily, worsening British floods which are dividing England into two parts and isolating Scotland from the rest of the country…

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Scotland cut off by floods

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 March 1947 · page 56

LONDON, Sat.--Blizzards and heavy floods following the thaw in England have cut off Scotland from the rest of…

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Gales, Floods Sweep Britain; Search for Bodies in Wreckage

The Sun · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--While more than 1,000,000 people in East London are short of water because a flood polluted big filter beds, new floods and gales threaten disaster in the Thames Valley and the Fen country…

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Floods and Blizzards Grim Week-end In Britain Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 16.—While flood waters swirled over large parts of southern England, blizzards again swept most of the country this week-end…

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Floods Sweeping Britain Thaw Causes New Chaos; North Cut Off

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--After three months of snow and blizzards--the worst weather in Britain's history--floods are now sweeping the country…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped, by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging,around thousands of…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy fain, whipped by 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON Monday.--Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…

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Londoners Buried in Wrecked Houses Grim Toll Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Flood wafers, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of…

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Germans Killed In Gale Collapse

The Sun · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

BERLIN. Tuesday.--Six German civilians were killed and 12 others injured in Berlin, and Hamburg, yestreday when the…

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Gale Kills 14 in Britain Trees On Roads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 17 (A.A.P.).—Fourteen people are now reported dead in the 70-mile-an-hour gale which…

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GALE (70 M.p.h.) Hits Britain Houses Blown Down; 14 Killed Our Staff Correspondent And A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 3

LONDON, March 17.—After months of snow, blizzards and floods, England was last night swept by a 70-mile-an-hour gale which wrecked numbers of buildings and…

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Floods Follow Great British Thaw

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 3

LEFT: The old saying, "Wet inside and out," might well describe this scene in the Lamb Inn at Maidstone, England, where the River Medway has reached its highest level for 27 years. RIGHT: Flooded houses in Mortimer Street, Trowbridge, Wills., where the River Biss, swollen by melted snow, is in full flood…

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England Severed By Floods: Ruin Spreads

The Sun · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Floods now extend oyer thousands of square miles of England, and it is possible to travel by boat from the North Sea to the Irish Channel. Death roll in Sunday night's terrific gale…

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