I remember it well, we lived on Police Station Lane, (now Dukes Lane) and on February 1st, because our school was flooded, (Technical High School) my brother and myself decided to go and ''have a look'' finding the two barn/shed doors, we had a go at rafting, I remember it well, I fell in, not long after the photograph was taken.

i well remember 31 1 1953 as usual iwas going roller skating in the winter gardens on arrival we were told due to high winds the glass in building was unsafe so we made our way to the empire cinema during the film a message came on the screen for anyone living in cobholm and southtown to go home at once no reason was given but when the film was over a message was shown telling everyone to leave the cinema by the side exit doors on leaviing we walked to front of the cinema to find the sea lapping the front steps when i got home to havelock road the water was all over the road but not in the house my father was a coach driver for norfolk moter services and he had parked his bedford coach in clarence road outside richmand & pritchards garage and all you could see was the coach roof you can see a pitcure of this in the time tide muesuem at the time i was an apprentice at h cole & company in steam mill lane when i went to work the next day all the workshops were deep in mud &water and it took sometime to get back in working order A Symonds 4 Overmead Green Oxford 0x46dj

Yes I remember the floods of 1953, I would be about 8 at the time. We lived at no. 95 St.Nicholas Road, opposite Smiths fish and chip shop where my mother worked. We stood on the doorstep until very late watching the progress of the flood water. Fortunately it stopped at the silk mills pub.