www.theforgottenflood.com
In 1864 Sheffield was engulfed by water after the Dale Dyke Dam burst its banks. This is the story of the Great Sheffield Flood that killed over 250 innocent people and wrecked a modern Victorian city.
30 minute film - Available to purchase on DVD - go to www.theforgottenflood.com
It's bad enough for a disaster like that to happen anyway, but to happen at night makes it all the worse...
BSNFabricating 2 years ago
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.
thirlestanelodge2 2 years ago
who sez its a forgotten flood. It is still well known in Sheffield. Have a look in Handsworth Churchyard.Plenty on em in there.
thirlestanelodge2 2 years ago
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.
125or200px 3 years ago
Most school districts do a pretty bad job of teaching local history, no matter where you live.
IconWatcher 4 years ago
Sheffield Council should raise awareness of this history of Sheffield. I don't remember my school teaching about it in the 1980s.
JulieJackson1 4 years ago
A what about the 1953 flood, it was about 10 times as deadly, most people do not know about this one either!
jemmans 4 years ago
the two children who died in the barracks were my relatives!
jemmans 4 years ago
2 of my relatives died in this flood.
jemmans 4 years ago
Mother earth will reclaim her land
cheroflip 4 years ago