The Great Flood of 1968 – 33 Rare Vintage Photos Show England in the Disaster Day

Here are some rarely seen pictures of the Great Flood in England in 1968.

 
At Ashton Rd., Bristol

 
At Eastville, Bristol

 

Avonmouth, Bristol

 

Avonmouth, Bristol

 

Bath Hill East, Keynsham

 

Batheaston, Bath, Somerset

 

Bristol firemen wade through the flood water in Hendre Road

 

Cheddar Gorge became a river, a raging torrent of mud and rocks, Cheddar, Somerset

 

Cheddar, Somerset

 

Cleaning up after the flood, Lypiatt Road, St George, Bristol

 

Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Somerset, July 1968

 

East Street, Bedminster, Bristol

 

Eastville, Bristol

 

Householders start to dry out their homes after the flood, Bedminster, Bristol

 

Lower Bristol Road after the rainstorm, Bath, Somerset

 

Lower Bristol Road was badly flooded, Bath, Somerset

 

Lypiatt Road, St George, Bristol

 

Pensford Bridge, Pensford, Somerset

 

Pensford, Somerset

 

People were trapped in these cottages by the floodwater, Ashton Gate, Bristol

 

Rescue work in Dapps Hill, Keynsham

 

The 110 foot long Bailey Bridge at Keynsham after the flood, 1968

 

The centre of Frome in Somerset became a massive duckpond

 

The civil defence volunteers serve tea during the big clean-up, Dapps Hill, Keynsham

 

Three people died when their car was washed from this bridge, Keynsham, 1968

 

Will's tobacco factory under water in East Street, Bedminster, Bristol

 

Willsbridge Mill, South Gloucestershire

 

Willsbridge was hit by a tidal wave of water from the mill

 

Winterstoke Road looking towards Ashton Containers in the morning after the storm

 

Winterstoke Road, blocked by a mile of water and abandoned vehicles, Bristol

 

 
All that was left of the historic County Bridge at Keynsham

 

Ashton Gate, Bristol

 

 
Ashton Gate, Bristol