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Author: Carmel King
ISBN: 0 86025 536
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A gale in the Irish Sea on 31st January
1953 caused deaths by drowning, but that was nothing compared
to the catastrophe that hit the eastern counties of England
as the wind caused a build up of water that overwhelmed the
sea defences of most of the coastal communities of Lincolnshire,
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, before sweeping on to wreak
more destruction in the Low Countries of Europe.
This is a minute by minute account of how
the ships, towns, villages, and islands faced disaster. Stories
of personal heroism are mixed with the tragedies of ordinary
folk caught up in a cataclysm of wind and water. After the
Storm re-building of sea walls and communities took place
and fifty years on, memorials were erected. The Princess Victoria,
Sea Palling, Great Yarmouth, Aldeburgh, Jaywick, Wallasea,
Foulness, Canvey Island… a touching record of human endeavour
in adversity.
80 pages, 63 photographs
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