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Other significant Thames floods since 1947 have occurred in 1968, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2014. [citation needed]Following the 1947 flood, a recent commentator has suggested, the Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead—having been particularly heavily hit—"judged that the zoning regulation after 1947 would cause the area to become derelict and destroy its amenities".
The rivers Thames and Lea flooded in London, causing the Windsor borough engineer Geoffrey Baker to remark: "We could only cope if we had a spare Thames, or two." [11] A bulldozer towing a sledge delivers bread to the snowbound village of Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, on 15 March 1947. Flooding from the River Trent in West Bridgford near Nottingham
14 March – Thames flood and other widespread flooding as the exceptionally harsh winter ends in a thaw. [8] March – Postwar boom in births reaches peak. [9] April – English country houses at Arundel, Chatsworth and Longleat reopen to the visiting public, after wartime use. 1 April – Raising of school leaving age to fifteen. [9]
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th ... March 14 – The Thames flood and other widespread flooding occurs, ...
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1947 Thames flood; W. Whitehaven; Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 09:38 (UTC). Text is available under the ...