Flooding Collection (page 3)

Record Rainfall - flooding at Brentford Docks
Record Rainfall in June 1903 - flooding at Brentford Docks. Date: 1903

Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Operating the flooding gear in the escape chamber of a Submarine. Date: late 1930s

Panoramic view of the flooding at Edirne, Turkey Date: circa 1910

Edirne, Turkey - Flooding. Area around the Mihal Bridge with Mosque in distance. Date: circa 1910

Liege, Belgium - Flood of 1910
Flooded street in Liege, Belgium - 27th February 1910. Date: 1910

LCC-LFB Flooding caused by burst water main in street
An area of Hammersmith and Fulham extensively flooded following the fracture of a large diameter water main in the street

Boys having fun during Medway floods, Kent
A group of boys having fun on their way home from school after the River Medway overflowed its banks. All along the Upper Medway Valleys from Maidstone to Tunbridge

Saving a baby from flooded building, South Wales
A baby is handed to safety after houses were swept away when heavy rains hit the Aberdare area of South Wales. circa 1911

Flooding near the Pyramids, Egypt. People bring containers to fill with water. Date: early 20th century

London tube made air raid proof, 1939
Page from The Sphere outlining how London Underground had carried out emergency work on the under-river tube tunnels to make them waterproof from flooding during World War II

St Mary Street, Cardiff, and River Taff
Colour drawing of St Mary Street, Cardiff, showing damage done by flooding from the River Taff, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. 1840

Flood Damage in Madeira
Debris and mud deposited in the streets of Funchal, Madeira as a result of severe flooding in February, 2010. 2010

Floods in Madeira
Debris strewn across a narrow street in Fuchal, Madeira following devastation floods in February, 2010. 2010

Flooding in Madeira
Raging flood waters rush down a street in Funchal, the capital of Madeira, February 2010. 2010

Flood damage in Funchal, Madeira
The damage causes by severe flooding to the narrow streets of Funchal, Madeira in February 2010. 2010

Flooding at Salzburg, Austria
Extensive flooding at Salzburg, Austria between 13th and 14th September 1899 Date: 1899

Flooding in Lyon in 1910
Flooding in Lyon in January 1910 caused a great rise in the water level of the River Rhone. Here a baker and his boys in his traditional bateau boat

Great Flood in Paris - L Avenue Montaigne
The Great Flood in Paris - January 1910 - L Avenue Montaigne under water after the River Seine breaks its banks. Date: 1910

1909 floods in Melbourne
Walkers Hotel in South Grafton, Melbourne during the 1909 floods in Australia

Temples of Philae, being moved to prevent submersion, the Tutunkhamun Exhibition in London part-financed this operation. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Flood scene at Maidstone, Kent
A flood scene at Maidstone, Kent -- a little boy in his school uniform uses his mothers wooden washtub as a boat

Proposal for a Thames Barrage, Gravesend, 1905
Illustration showing a barrage of barrier and locks across the River Thames at Gravesend proposed by James Casey in 1905. The object of this proposal was to protect London against serious flooding

Holmfirth Reservoir
Terrible inundation and loss of life at Holmfirth when the reservoir burst its banks in 1852

Americas Immigrants
The United American Nation - Uncle Sam regards with some misgivings the mixed bag of immigrants who are flooding into his country

Paris Streets
The streets of Paris were liable to flooding, and men picked up tips by picking up ladies and carting them from one side of the road to the other

Great Sheffield Flood
The Great Flood (or Inundation) at Sheffield on 11th March 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam broke flooding Sheffield. Scene showing the wrecking of Coronation Bridge

Flooding Sheffield 1864
The Great Flood (or Inundation) at Sheffield on 11th March 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam broke flooding Sheffield and surrounding areas and wrecking nearly all

The flooded fens around the Coffer Dam. Farmland drowned in
The flooded fens of the Eastern Counties. The flooding caused by numerous high tides which was hoped to be resolved by the building of the Coffer Dam The dam would act as a barrier to the assaults of

The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir, spreading destructio
The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir. Much destruction was caused by the flooding, bridges lost and buildings demolished

Civic Arena - Milan
The Civic Arena of Milan. This large public space was used for classical sports reconstructions, including a complete flooding for a Naumachia in 1807 for Napoleon

Flooding in Paris
Floods in Paris outside the Gare Saint-Lazare: the streets awash with water

Fleeing Glacial Flood
Humans and other animals flee southwards before the glacial flood which devastates Europe at the end of the Ice Age

February landscape in the Welsh Borders. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Floods, Cincinnati
Flooding at Cincinnati forces many to leave their homes, to which is added explosions of gas when mains are shattered

Nilometer (Mayer) 1802
The Nilometer at Cairo

Thames Floods at Putney
The river Thames rises above its banks at Putney, west London, and residents have to escape from the top floors of their houses into a horse- drawn cart

Floods in Essex, England
A man in bowler hat and splendid beard and several other homeowners stand in the flooded gardens of their houses during a flood in Essex

The Flooded Honddu
The flooded Honddu carrying away the buildings on its bank

Chinese River Magic
CHINA Priests wear masks, the better to frighten demons and prevent further flooding of the Yellow River (Hwang Ho)

John Wesleys carriage
The carriage in which John Wesley, Methodist preacher, travelled from meeting to meeting across Britain

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