Repro ID: H5050
Title: The floods of 1953 in Canning Town.
Description: These two women are at the Kier Hardie Estate, Canning Town. On the night of 31 January 1953, the east coast of England suffered one of the worst floods in living memory and one of the biggest environmental disasters ever to have occurred in Britain.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1953
Credit line: Newham Archives and Local Studies Library Collection