Northampton floods 1998

the river nene passing through northampton could not cope with the exceptional amount water flowing into it

[@williamcurrie9018]

Thanks for posting. That's my father at 1:17 doing his best to clear the water with a rake 😆

[@aleccoy3268]

Hi, incredible footage. Have only been told stories about this flooding. My grandparents have owned Pipedream (narrow boat towards the start) since new. Amazing to see what it was actually like 👍. Pleased to say the boat is still around today. Looking as good as it did then 👍

[@David-km8in]

I remember it very well. We had 5 days of heavy rain. And all buses were cancelled because the bus station in St James was flooded.

[@beaucorr2561]

I remember this quite well. I looked out of my kitchen window and noticed the fields were sparkling in the early morning sunlight revealing the flooded fields opposite. I lived in Briar Hill at the time...

[@BossySwan]

Remember this like it was yesterday

[@vincentdeguard4726]

i remember this like it was 20 years ago...even had few paid days off work as work-place was flooded haha

[@tonykirk1966]

Lived in Far cotton and the ground floor was waist deep in water. Man made flood as all the water was gone the next morning. Never apologised to or compensated for the 💩 they put us through.

[@estoforte388]

Important local history

[@nastytrigga]

Me and my mates went to billing and found a peddle boat on its own and went round some of the site on it was funny as 😂

[@hughcoulter8313]

It flooded because some one ordered the flood gates to be kept closed so they could look for a body from a sunken narrow boat....

[@colinward9677]

That's right my mother and father heard it on a police scanner at the time but the authorities didn't want to own up to it