Much of Grantham was under water including Wharf Road and Springfield Road.
This is East Street under water. On the left is the Hare & Hounds pub.
BEFORE global warming was thought of, Grantham suffered some extremes of weather.
In 1947, the weight of snow brought down the station roof and gales have often wreaked havoc through the town.
In August 1922, the town was under water due to a storm which lasted three days. East Street, including the electricity generating station was flooded, so were the Inner Street allotments, where gardeners had to be rescued by boat from the roofs of their sheds.
Even Springfield Road was flooded.
The River Witham was in a particularly angry mood and its swollen waters brought down the footbridge linking Dudley Road and Witham Place, as this picture sent in by Mrs S. Clarke, shows.
This left residents on the Dudley Road side having to go the long way round to their work at Ruston and Hornsby, on London Road.
Wharf Road 1922
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