HOMES FLOODED IN BELPER DOWNPOUR Tenants Barricade Doors as Sewer Covers are Forced off
... corner of Bridge Street and Field Lane, where the water had flowed into a cellar to a depth of about a foot. At the “Royal Oak,” Mill Street, crates of empty bottles floated in about two feet of water in the basement. The licensee, Mr. J. Blackwell, used ...