On the night of 31st January 1953
hundreds of people lost their lives and thousands were made homeless
in what is remembered as the worst peacetime disaster to strike the
east coast of Britain.A
unique combination of a tidal surge and a deep atmospheric low
pressure system raised sea levels in Scotland. Gale force winds
whipped up and increased the height of the tide resulting in a
massive wall of water rushing relentlessly south, down the North
Sea. The further down the country this unusually high tide
travelled, the more it built into a massive tsunami-like wave,
towering 3 metres higher than the expected spring tide. When this
wave reached the mouth of the Thames estuary, Essex took the full
force of the violent surge.
There were 300 breaches in the sea
walls, some just a few metres, others half a mile in length.
Flood 53 tells the stories of just
a few of those people who lived through these terrible times. These
are their stories, told in their own words, with archive film,
photos and contemporary newspaper reports.
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