Great Sheffield Flood 1864 - The Forgotten Flood

[BSNFabricating]

It's bad enough for a disaster like that to happen anyway, but to happen at night makes it all the worse...

[thirlestanelodge2]

who sez its a forgotten flood. It is still well known in Sheffield. Have a look in Handsworth Churchyard.Plenty on em in there.

[125or200px]

There is a saying around Yorkshire that goes "once in a Sheffield flood"

And it means not very often, obviously.

I wasnt taught about the floods at school,but i remember being told of the lost village under Ladybower damm.

You could even see the old church belltower at low tide.

Very eerie feeling when you get to know the story.

[thirlestanelodge2]

My Dad delivered papers in Ladybower Village, before it was flooded for the reservoir. In the drought of 1976 he took us to show us. There were still a car in the street. That church steeple was blown up to stop folk frum swimming out to it.

[IconWatcher]

Most school districts do a pretty bad job of teaching local history, no matter where you live.

[JulieJackson1]

Sheffield Council should raise awareness of this history of Sheffield. I don't remember my school teaching about it in the 1980s.

[jemmans]

2 of my relatives died in this flood.

[cheroflip]

Mother earth will reclaim her land

[wobber999]

I learned about this flood at school

back In 84 truly shocking

I think the only people

In hillsborough were the people who lived at walkley and stannington

[ezwanhamdi]

i hope everybody is doing ok there now. i'll be coming to Sheffield in two weeks to visit my friends there. i hope they're not badly affected by the flood. i'm from malaysia.

[tunderstorm2806]

today i was shopping at morrisons and showed my children the plaque on the wall outside hillsborough Barracks to show them how high the flood waters reached. Thank you for the reminder of this flood.

[jemmans]

the two children who died in the barracks were my relatives!

[lilmissrosieposie89]

Its so sad how forgotten it is!! most people in sheffield havent heard of it!! we were one of the only schools in sheffield to study it and thats because its very local!

[jemmans]

A what about the 1953 flood, it was about 10 times as deadly, most people do not know about this one either!