Wettest Day of England's Wettest Year
NEW USE FOE FIRE BRIGADES United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 14. Friday was actually the wettest day of the wettest year on record in Britain. The whole town of Silverdale, near Stoke, was forced to the upper storeys on account of the flood waters. London’s firo brigades were constantly employed in pumping out homes. Four million tons of rain fell in Greater London yesterday, culminating a fortnight of the worst August weather in living memory. Reports of thunderstorms and cloudbursts were received from throughout the country. Houses were struck by lightning, rivers are in spate, reads are flooded, camps, and fair groiaads inundated, and sports and summer functions were abandoned,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6629, 17 August 1931, Page 6
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123Wettest Day of England's Wettest Year Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6629, 17 August 1931, Page 6
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