STREETS INUNDATED

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 9

STREETS INUNDATED

FLOODS IN THE TOWER LONDON, 7th January. Many houses in Stamford street, parallel to the Thames, leading to Waterloo Station, Were inundated. Three hundred women and children, took refuge in a chapel. A hundred and fifty men ceased work at the Union Cold Storage when water reached the machinery. Colonel Day, M.P., telephoned that the furniture in his flat at Westminster was floating. A boy asleep in a house at Broadwall, Blackfriars, was washed from his bed, but managed to scramble to safety. Another victim of the floods was an elderly woman who was drowned in a basement house in Couston street, close to Vnuxhall Bridge. Firemen were pumping out, basements iit 0.30 this morning, the tide turning helping to save tho situation. Residents in Ponsonby place were warned by a lighterman hammering on

their doors. People rushed out in their night clothes. It is believed that ten were drowned in the Westminster basements, including the porter of the Tate Gallery, and others at Putney and Hammersmith. The floods reached the jewel chamber in the Tower, and the Blackwall tunnel. Mounted police rescued tenorstricken women and children in many low-lying streets.