1953 The Year of the Floods
with Terence Atkins
Flooding; not a new phenomenon. On the 31st of January 1953 some 307 people were killed when the Thames estuary broke its banks, flooding large areas of Kent and Essex.
A car ferry also sank in the Irish Sea, in one of the worst gales in living memory, claiming the lives of more than 130 passengers and crew.
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