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A lorry splashing along and a postman delivering the mail are the only signs of life in the flooded High Street at Eton, in the Thames Valley. The swollen river has flooded thousands of acres of land and many riverside towns are seriously endangered by the floods.
Many bungalow dwellers have been taken away from their flooded homes by Army rescue parties working the amphibious vehicles of the type use by them for the invading of Normandy, people living in two storey houses have been forced to live entirely in the upstairs rooms.
19 March 1947
Credit:TopFoto
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