FLOODS IN ENGLAND
MUCH DAMAGE DONE ROAD FALLS INTO VALLEY British Wireless—Press Assn Copyright RUGBY, Sunday. A week of violent thunderstorms and exceptionally heavy rains culminated on Friday in a torrential downpour in North Staffordshire and else where. Many villages were flooded and the railway track near Leek was sub merged. Roads were torn up in several pot teries towns and the houses were flooded in the Lake district. Much damage was also done to crops and property. In Manchester the floods caused a roadway overlooking the racecourse to collapse and a large portion of it fell into a valley 50ft below. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 100, 19 July 1927, Page 9
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105FLOODS IN ENGLAND Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 100, 19 July 1927, Page 9
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