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Not a storm in a teacup!

Flood_pictures_0009On today’s programme Frances recalled the huge thunderstorm which hit Billericay and Wickford 55 years ago. It was on the evening of the 5th September 1958, that following a hot and humid day, the storm hit. The rain was so intense that not even buses and trains could get through the resultant floods. Wickford was under 5 foot of water, double decker buses were half submerged.
Listen again to what Frances had to say on the subject here: – Bygones 20th August

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Not a storm in a teacup!

Flood_pictures_0009On today’s programme Frances recalled the huge thunderstorm which hit Billericay and Wickford 55 years ago. It was on the evening of the 5th September 1958, that following a hot and humid day, the storm hit. The rain was so intense that not even buses and trains could get through the resultant floods. Wickford was under 5 foot of water, double decker buses were half submerged.
Listen again to what Frances had to say on the subject here: – Bygones 20th August

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Not a storm in a teacup!

Flood_pictures_0009On today’s programme Frances recalled the huge thunderstorm which hit Billericay and Wickford 55 years ago. It was on the evening of the 5th September 1958, that following a hot and humid day, the storm hit. The rain was so intense that not even buses and trains could get through the resultant floods. Wickford was under 5 foot of water, double decker buses were half submerged.
Listen again to what Frances had to say on the subject here: – Bygones 20th August

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Not a storm in a teacup!

Flood_pictures_0009On today’s programme Frances recalled the huge thunderstorm which hit Billericay and Wickford 55 years ago. It was on the evening of the 5th September 1958, that following a hot and humid day, the storm hit. The rain was so intense that not even buses and trains could get through the resultant floods. Wickford was under 5 foot of water, double decker buses were half submerged.
Listen again to what Frances had to say on the subject here: – Bygones 20th August

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