Here are some rarely seen pictures of the Great Flood in England in 1968.
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At Ashton Rd., Bristol |
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At Eastville, Bristol |
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Avonmouth, Bristol |
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Avonmouth, Bristol |
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Bath Hill East, Keynsham |
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Batheaston, Bath, Somerset |
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Bristol firemen wade through the flood water in Hendre Road |
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Cheddar Gorge became a river, a raging torrent of mud and rocks, Cheddar, Somerset |
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Cheddar, Somerset |
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Cleaning up after the flood, Lypiatt Road, St George, Bristol |
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Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Somerset, July 1968 |
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East Street, Bedminster, Bristol |
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Eastville, Bristol |
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Householders start to dry out their homes after the flood, Bedminster, Bristol |
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Lower Bristol Road after the rainstorm, Bath, Somerset |
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Lower Bristol Road was badly flooded, Bath, Somerset |
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Lypiatt Road, St George, Bristol |
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Pensford Bridge, Pensford, Somerset |
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Pensford, Somerset |
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People were trapped in these cottages by the floodwater, Ashton Gate, Bristol |
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Rescue work in Dapps Hill, Keynsham |
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The 110 foot long Bailey Bridge at Keynsham after the flood, 1968 |
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The centre of Frome in Somerset became a massive duckpond |
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The civil defence volunteers serve tea during the big clean-up, Dapps Hill, Keynsham |
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Three people died when their car was washed from this bridge, Keynsham, 1968 |
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Will's tobacco factory under water in East Street, Bedminster, Bristol |
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Willsbridge Mill, South Gloucestershire |
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Willsbridge was hit by a tidal wave of water from the mill |
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Winterstoke Road looking towards Ashton Containers in the morning after the storm |
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Winterstoke Road, blocked by a mile of water and abandoned vehicles, Bristol |
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All that was left of the historic County Bridge at Keynsham |
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Ashton Gate, Bristol |
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Ashton Gate, Bristol |
(Photos from Paul Townsend)