The Flood of December 1960Photographs from the Collection of John Lee & Mike Stokes |
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A
crowd of sightseers has gathered outside the Library in Wyndham Street.
(John Lee Collection) |
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| A policeman and two boys enjoy a paddle in Wyndham Street. (John Lee Collection) | A rescue, probably staged for press photographers - there was dry land just behind the photographer! (John Lee Collection) |
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| Caroline Street with a group of onlookers. Stokes & Sons was the last shop in the street to be flooded. (John Lee Collection) | Market Street;
two modes of transport, a horse or a piggyback from your big brother in
wellingtons! (John Lee Collection) |
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| An opportunity
for boating in Caroline Street. (John Lee Collection) |
Look there's
more of them! (John Lee Collection) |
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| A view looking
from Caroline Street into Adare Street. (John Lee Collection) |
Adare Street
looking towards Caroline Street. (John Lee Collection) |
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| The shop
on the corner of Sunnyside Road, now underneath the junction at the bottom
of Park Street. (John Lee Collection) |
At the bottom
of the (old) Rhiw, Water Street to the left and Queen Street leading off
to the right. (John Lee Collection) |
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| Dunraven Place, a Western Welsh half-cab single deck bus crawls into Market Street. (M J Stokes Collection) | The bailey
bridge near Newbridge Fields. The open-air swimming pool is in the background. (John Lee Collection) |