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cpm - flooding in 1960s

cpm - flooding in 1960s
Residents in Chippenham say the flooding there from Storm Bert is some of the worst they've seen since the 1960s.
This old B&W image [which is not mine] almost certainly dates from the same storm that flooded the River Chew valley on the 10th July 1968.
I was at School in Keynsham - where the Chew flowed into the [Bristol] Avon - and remember amongst all the destruction, that a car was washed up in the "park" under the bypass bridge, and that 3 of the 4 original occupants had drowned. The sole survivor was found in a tree. The whole series of events affected me and recently seeing a documentary about it reminded me of the devastation.
summary in wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Chew_Stoke_flood

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 StoneRoad2013
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That looks like the floods in July 1968
{which took out bridges in the Chew Valley & Keynsham - 10th July 1968 - and also killed three people - their car washed up in Keynsham, not far from the "bypass bridge"}
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