BRITAIN'S STORM
THE WORST IN HISTORY. Saturday, November 27, 1703, was the date of the most terrible storm known in history. The hurricane started with a high gale on the Wednesday. On Friday nigh't it began to increase in violence and raged through most of Saturday, and the whole of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday so much so that people were afraid to go to bed, and took refuge in their cellars. Some thought the end of th,e world had come. All over the country roofs and walls and palings were blown down, parks stripped of their trees. Many persons lost their lives. The destruction to shipping was terrible. Almost every boat in the Thames was reduced to matchwood, and many vessels of the Fleet were wrecked. It was during this ' storm that the first (Eddystone Lighthouse, which had only been built four years before, toppled over into the waves, carrying with it the architect and five of his friends."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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159BRITAIN'S STORM Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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