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31st January 2003
East Coast Floods 1953

Information for this feature on our website was obtained from:

FACTS

1953 EAST COAST FLOODS:

307 people drowned

24,000 homes flooded

1,200 breaches along 1,000 miles of coastline

160,000 acres of farmland flooded

46,000 livestock lost

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BBC Weather Centre

Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs

East Anglian Daily Times

East Anglian Film Archive, UEA

Environment Agency

Evening Star

Felixstowe Town Council

Met Office

Stour and Orwell Estuaries

Suffolk County Council

WeatherQuest, UEA

24seven

The Flooding of Eastern England - By MG & HJ Holland, Minimax Books Ltd

Langer Primary School, Langer Road, Felixstowe

With special thanks to everyone who was interviewed by BBC Radio Suffolk's David Webb, or who sent in their own memories of the event, or who loaned us photographs and information for this feature.

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