A SPRING TIDE AT REDCLIFFS—Traffic was stopped and hundreds of pounds worth of damage was done when a spring tide swept across the tram lines and the road and into houses at Redcliffs late yesterday afternoon. These, pictures, taken just after the waters had receded, show: ABOVE: A tram derailed by debris swept on to the tracks by the water. BELOW: One of the many rooms in which furniture had to be piled high to escape the water that flooded numbers of houses.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23352, 11 June 1941, Page 10
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83A SPRING TIDE AT REDCLIFFS—Traffic was stopped and hundreds of pounds worth of damage was done when a spring tide swept across the tram lines and the road and into houses at Redcliffs late yesterday afternoon. These, pictures, taken just after the waters had receded, show: ABOVE: A tram derailed by debris swept on to the tracks by the water. BELOW: One of the many rooms in which furniture had to be piled high to escape the water that flooded numbers of houses. Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23352, 11 June 1941, Page 10
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