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With the flooding of the A1077 beyond Low Farm a regular
occurrence before the mid-fifties, trade still had to carry on as demonstrated by these three photographs. These pictures were taken on Friday 5th September 1952, just before 8:00 am.
GFU 969 finds a shallow patch of water as it splashes along the A1077 with
Eastwoods Cement Works chimney showing a strong north wind in the background.
The GPO must deliver the mail! Here the mail is getting through - but looks perilously
close to the drop on the far side of the road - which lacked the markers on the opposite side next to the River Humber.
Woolley’s Bakery van makes easy work of the calmer waters.
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©Crown Copyright 1952 Reproduced with the permission of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
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