FLOODS IN ENGLAND
DARTFORD BADLY AFFECTED
THAMES CONTINUES TO RISE
Rugby, January 4. The flood situation to-day is better in some areas and worse in others.
Dartford, in Kent, is one of the new areas badly affected. The River Darentli suddenly burst its banks during the night, and to-day there were four feet of water in some of Dartford’s streets. .Some 200 houses are flooded, and their occupants are living in bedrooms. The Thames continues to rise, and in places where it lias overflowed the banks it is six or seven times its normal width. At Clapton, in Fast London, many houses are marooned as a result of the overflowing of the river Lea, a tributary of the Thames.—British Official Wireless.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 10
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