These pictures are
taken from a cine
film of the flood as
it happened.
THE FLOODS OF 1967
The floods of 1967 devastated two of the communities in the
area. The village of Wray was flooded, the force of the water
smashing through the village and destroying property, land and
livestock.
One man living in
Dunsop Bridge wa
s more annoyed ab
anything else as it
out his sports car th
was ruined.
an
Another lady who
was visiting her da
ughter at the time
that someone had
returned home to
climbed in through
find
a little window at th
so that he could go
e back of her hous
and open the front
e
door to let the water
annoyed about that
out. She was more
than the water!
ll
affected as record rainfa
Dunsop Bridge was also
o
shing massive boulders int
fell, in August 1967 wa
the rivers for
the land and
the village and affecting
e.
years to com
Roeburndale Va
In 1992 British Te
lecom sited their
100,000th telepho
Dunsop Bridge aft
ne box in
er it was found by
the Ordnance Su
the village neares
rvey to be
t to the centre of
Great Britain.
pact
emic had a major im
Foot and Mouth epid
The
g felt.
er-effects are still bein
on the area and the aft
lley before the
flo
od
A lady who lived on a farm at
no
the time recalls that there was
of the severity of the flood,
warning
and
although it had been thundering
lightning all day.
top
The cloudburst happened on
like an explosion, the
of the fell
the
impact of the water washing
y. The force of the water
bridge awa
t down
was such that some of it wen
Roeburn Scar after
Backsbottom Fa
rm after the flo
od: Half the fa
swept away w
rmhouse was
hilst the owne
rs were still in
side.
ns
rain fell in 90 mi
the flood: 120mm of
noise was
ent said: “the
e
ne Wray resid
O
lly grown wer
g, big trees fu
a great roarin
indows were
w
st, downstairs
being swept pa
ed to shake
the house seem s.”
ing smashed,
be
tree
it was struck by
every second as
Volunteers repaire
d
Dunsop Village G
re
en
ay
the River Roeburn through Wr
n the River Dunsop.
and some dow
y five
Five inches of rain fell in fort
remembers “telephone
minutes. She
er,
poles danced on top of the wat
uprooted but were still
they had been
so much
held by the wires. There was
down that it was 13
debris washed
the
weeks before we c