BRITISH FLOOD HAVOC
FARMSTEADS CUT OFF YORKSHIRE FIELDS AS LAKES DERBY HOMES INUNDATED. MANY ROADS IMPASSABLE. •United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, May 23. Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage has been done throughout England by the torrential week-end rains which broke the record of SO years in many districts. There were most serious floods, particularly in Yorkshire, where scores of farmsteads were cut off, the water converting the fields into takes, washing away corn and potatoes and killing poultry. Six hundred shops and 1000 houses in Derby were inundated. Hundreds of roads in North England were impassable.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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