Lynmouth floods: race against the tides (1952)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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In Lynmouth the British Army work around the clock to resotre the sea walls in an effort to prevent more flood damage to buildings and people during the 1952 Lynmouth Flood

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SLATE INFORMATION: Day and Night Race against The Tides - Lynmouth

ENGLAND: Devon: Lynmouth:
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BULLDOZERS Using them by Army to restore broken sea-wall at Lynmouth. work in day and at night by searchlight in great teams

CHURCHER GENERAL. C-in-C Souther Command watches operational at Lynmouth to restore broken sea-wall

LYNMOUTH Devon. Army at work by night and day to restore the broken sea-wall by bulldozers and cranes. etc.. salvage all timber..Dig away the rubble..Shots of the damaged village in light and searchlight.. C-C-in-C Gen Churcher

MILITARY BRITISH. With cranes and bulldozers restore by day and night the broken sea wall at Lynmouth..Shots C-in-C Southern Command, Gen Churcher.

Disasters and Accidents; Weather, flooding, flooding damage, flood walls, flood protection, Major-General John Bryan Churcher, sappers, Royal Corps of Engineers
Background: In Lynmouth the British Army work around the clock to resotre the sea walls in an effort to prevent more flood damage to buildings and people during the 1952 Lynmouth Flood

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