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)
