"Flood Town" Protests (1958)

Full title reads: "Wickford. 'Flood Town' Protests".
Wickford, Essex.
CU Rain beating down on pavement and stream of water running down gutter. LV Panning shot of man in Sou'wester outfit about to cross road in pouring rain. CU Water running down gutter into drain. CU Panning shot of two girls walking passed under an umbrella. CU Rain running off an open window. SV Rain beating down on pavement. CU Water pouring into drain. GV Lorries driving slowly through the flooded streets of Wickford. Travel shot showing flooded street and gardens. SV Children carrying their shoes as they wade through the floodwaters and a man goes in the opposite direction pushing a bike and wearing gumboots. LV Floodwater outside shops. SV Shopkeeper sweeping water out of shop into road and camera pans to show flooded roadway. LV Two delivery boys pushing their bikes along flooded road, one has his trousers rolled up. LV Bus coming towards us and creating wash as it drives along flooded roadway. SV As the bus passes and goes into backview. SV Young girl wading. LV AA (Automobile Association) men trying to move two cars which are stuck in the middle of flooded road. SV AA van towing car. GV Flooded street in Wickford.
(Neg.) Some library shots in story.
Cataloguer's Note: People in Wickford are complaining that new housing developments are making their town more liable to floods - MD.
FILM ID:1561.07
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[@patmanbaker6702]

Interesting.

[@keithwelton]

And here we are in 2021, 63 years later, still having flooding in varied parts of the country and blaming it on there being more housing and nowadays the fashionable “man made climate change” . Nothing changes really especially the need to blame someone for every natural weather event.

[@succulent951]

Maybe it's continuing and worsening because we haven't done enough about it at a national level???¿¿¿

[@succulent951]

Like blaming the sun for melting your chocolate when you've left it on the gas hob

[@teresamaskell6863]

It flood 1968 l used to live near River at Ethelred Gardens Runwell l can remember it raining all day water was coming in front door and back door house was in water my mum and dad slept up stairs with my sister and brother outside there was water in road quite lot of water from drain out side l was only 10 years old at time though it quite exciting