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1953 Floods

Taken from the Eastern Daily Press, Monday February 2, 1953. Commemorative edition reprinted 4 January 2003

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A staff photographer who flew over the battered Norfolk coastline yesterday took this picture of sea water pouring inland at Cley. The coast road can be seen in the top half of the photograph.

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The sea washes over the coast road at Walcot, at a point where protection works had recently been started.

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An air view at low tide, taken from a specially chartered plane, of the village of Sea Palling, where at least seven lost their lives

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The whirling torrent in the street at Palling.