Very proud to say that Alec Craig was my great grandfather. Seeing his face and hearing his voice again brought a tear to my eye. Thank you so much for this video
My Grandmother drowned in Jawick her name was Helena Bangle her body was found two days later at the bottom of the entrance to our bungalow my Grandfather managed to save me his hands were badly cut from holding onto the barbed wire as we made our way to safety. My Grandmother is buried in Burrs Road cemetery in Clacton On Sea I still look after her grave.
Sorry to hear about your Grandmother.I had heard as a small kid about the floods as my Great Great Aunt Lived on Canvey since the 1930s.Was not jjtil I read a book of Canvey residents stories that you realise how terrible this time was.Must have been very scary.
Hunstanton is now millionaires row, my uncle retired there...Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire suffered as well with 8 people killed by the storm surge..Thanks for the clip Dan 👍
@@juliarice3687 Diss, inland. My father had a plant nursery about a mile from our house. I went with him to help. When we got there, 6ft heavy glass and wood cold frame 'lights' were been thrown around by the wind. It was dark and very noisy. He got me to sit on the south west end of a frame and told me not to move while he went to get a hammer and some 6inch nails. He seemed to be gone for hours. Ever since that night I get very agitated when the wind is strong. Ptsd to this day! I am 77 this summer.
@@neilpiper9889 Wow, that sounds pretty scary. No wonder you still feel anxious. Do you remember any news about how it affected the more coastal areas that were flooded? Was there any sense of it where you lived? I imagine perhaps you were too young, whereas the visceral experience of being out in that wind would have an impact on any young mind.
@@juliarice3687 we listened to the 8am news on the radio and were as a family shocked and my father was angry that the coastal people were not warned. We lived 30 miles from the coast and had friends there. No one we knew there was flooded out. We had friends in Holland that were made homeless.
@@neilpiper9889 Yes, I have been visiting the Netherlands annually since 2001, mainly Zeeland in the south, and it was only through my travels there that I first heard about this event, even though I grew up in east London/Essex. The loss of life there was much greater of course, and flooding is visceral when so much of your country is below sea level, but even so, the losses in some communities in eastern England were staggering when you think about it.
2022 , I have just came back from the East coast. I was interested in finding out some of it's history. This video was amazing . I am much better informed for watching it.
