Flood Collection (page 5)

Thames flooding 1947
Aerial view of 1947 River Thames flooding at Oxford Date: 1947

Noahs ark and the general deluge. Date c1882 June 28

A flood. Print showing a baby and a kitten in a cradle floating on flood waters. Date c1897 October 25th

The country residence at Menlo Park of James C. Flood, Esq

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

A flood at Omsk, Russia
Omsk, the administrative centre of Omsk Oblast, Russia, located in southwestern Siberia - a flooded street. Date: circa 1910s

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

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

Scene of Welsh floods with damaged bridge, Aberdare
Scene of Welsh floods, with people standing near a damaged bridge in Aberdare, South Wales. Two lives were lost when the bridge collapsed due to heavy rain -- two youths

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

Romania - Floods at Galati, the capital of Galai County. The largest seaport on the Danube, the waterfront was prone to flooding, as shown here

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

St Marks Square under water
A flooded St. Marks Square - a lone gondola is being paddled across in fron of the Basilica. Date: circa 1910

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

Road collapse, Paris
A collapse at Place Saint Philippe du Roule in Paris on 15th June 1910 as a direct result of prior damage caused during the severe flood which hit the capital in January of the same year. Date: 1910

Penrhyn Flood 1945
Sea damage at Penrhyn Bay, Caernarvonshire, Wales, along part of the tramway from Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. Date: October 1945

Lyn Valley before Flood
The village of Lynmouth, Lyn Valley, North Devon, England, as it was before it was devastated by the great storm and flood of August 1952. Date: 1930s

Hopeless Plumber - Flooded House
" What is home without a Plumber." He leaves the water tap runnning... A family wakes up in the morning to discover that the rather hopeless plumber

A flood in the village of Meulan, France in January 1910. Quai Albert-Joly. Date: 1910

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

Venice / St Marks Square
Saint Marks Square during a flood. Date: 1867

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

The Anti-wet caravan / W H Robinson
For a typical British summer, this caravan is fitted with four stout telescopic legs enabling it to be raised bodily above high water marks

Flooded Paris
Ladies are rescued in the flooded streets of Paris

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

The old Mosque at Ephesus under flood water
The old Mosque and old Ottoman Graveyard at Ephesus under flood water

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

The Egyptian Temple Island of Philae, Egypt flooded
The Egyptian Temple Philae, Egypt under flood water. The Temple, under threat from the Nile throughout history, was eventually moved brick by brick to a new location in 1970 to prevent complete

River Thames Flood Prevention Scheme, 1926
Illustration showing a flood prevention scheme for the River Thames, from Oxford to Teddington, proposed by the Thames Conservancy c.1926

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

Noah makes a sacrifice of thanks to God for preserving him from the Flood

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

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 Flood-Scale on the Pont Neuf, Paris, November 1910
Photograph of the Flood-Scale on the Pont Neuf, showing the heights of various floods that had affected Paris between the 17th and 20th centuries

Nilometer / Cairo
Nilometer, Cairo. Used to measure the height of the Nile at flood. Also the site traditionally believed to be where Miriam discovered Moses

Stage Coach / Flood Tide
A Flood Tide " Ship a hoy!!" A concerned gentleman is offered passage by jolly boat, but encouraged to stay in the stage which will make the final five mile in 20 minutes

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

Mississippi Floods / 1927
Memphis inhabitants try to contain the Mississippi flood waters with a wall of sandbags

Gatwick Airport Flood
A young couple pushing their Mini car along the on the flooded A23 road near Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England

Australian Gold Rush
A new rush, and more people flood in to make their fortunes

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

Noah Thanks God
After the flood has subsided, Noah thanks God for saving him, and a rainbow is Gods sign of his good intentions

Refugees into Netherland
One quarter of a million Belgian refugees pour into neutral Holland in the face of the German invasion; others flood southwards into France, some escape to England

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