... ___-o.__ TUESDAY'S STORM. LOUTH FLOOD RECALLED. i The weather on Tuesday was again ‘marked by torrential rains and severe thunderstorms in many jarts, there heing fears of a repetition of the great Louth flood of 1920. Heavy thunderstorms ...

... from the hills all around. Such a flood could not possibly wash Horncastle away. It was purely a temporary phenomenon. It was a real act of God. But the water rose so rapidly, carrying all before it, that the 1920 flood experience was devastating and so ...

... LETTERS Memories of the flood Sir— 1 have received a recent copy of the Horncastle News recalling the flood of 1920. I well remember that May 29th Royal Qak day! 1 was 16 at the time living at 16 Accommodation Road, where my sister still lives. I went ...

... under the Bill”—This was confirmed. THE FLOOD DISASTER. | A letter was read from Mr B. G. Stone thanking the Executive for what had been done for the suffering in Louth and Horncastle by the abnormal flood in 1920. Mr. Stone reported that the claims of ...

... ravages 3 3 0' caused by the recent flood. We naturally 1 9 0 have feit the very deepest sympathy with all Y 5 01 the inhabitants of the district in the loss 3 0 0 which they have sustained due to the abnor- 9th June, 1920. | mal rain storm, but in your town ...

... Thurs day, Septmber 23rd, 1920.- Vduab'e LINCOLN RED BHORT-70 H(RN CATTLE, L.RS.A. LB, Vol 15, p. %: aad GRAND PEDIGREE LONG-WOOL 500 SIEEP, F.B. No. 4, full particulars of whichwi'l be duly announ-ed, Offices: Homeastle and Louth. PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF ...

... LONDON (King's X., no| ‘uo 410 840 [ 945 | * Comnection with all stations to t Connection with Louth arriving 12 A Fridays only, from Lincoln and Bar Louth ...

... FLOOD RELIEF FUND. ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Help Still Urgently Needed. {meomsnmn FOOTBALL. Annual Meeting of the County Association. MRS. MACVICAR'S SPLENDID ACTION. The a : P mml’“flfl meeting of the Lincolnshire Assoc was he!d at the Y h:x !d on Saturday ...

... and the villuges of Goulceby and Stenigot were flooded. The full force of the storm broke within half a mile of the spot where the cloudburst occurred in 1920, and caused the floods at Horncastle and Louth. ...

... gone by there have been destruciive floods.’ No, not the great flood of Oct. Tth, 1960, but one in Hgrncastle forty years ago on May 29th, 1920. A banner headline in the News reads “Great Havoc Caused By The Flood.” Other headlines read “Horncastle Divided ...

... can still be coped with before danger point is reached. Last serious flooding accurred in 1920, when a cloudburst between Horncastle and Louth caused damage and loss of life in the Louth district. ...

... inconvenience caused by flooding would be greatly reduced. Behind all this was th thought that the stanch o 1 the old canal had neve really been looked aft properly he T 1920 flooding (00l place right at the beginnin, of summer. Louth was the affected more ...