History
Newspaper Extract
4th July, 1958
Thirty families were evacuated in boats yesterday from the upstairs rooms of their flooded homes at Catcliffe, near Rotherham, Yorkshire. They were marooned in the bedrooms of their houses in Orgreave Road and Sheffield Lane when the River Rother overflowed its banks and flooded a large area. In parts the floods were 8ft. deep and most of the houses had 5ft. of water in the downstairs rooms.
The River Don at Rotherham was 9ft. above normal - a foot higher than on Wednesday and two and a half feet above the danger level.
The railway line between Rotherham and Mexborough was out of operation because of 4ft, deep floods near Rotherham Central Station.
The occupants of hundreds of houses in the mining village of Bentley, near Doncaster, were warned by loud speaker van yesterday to be prepared to leave or to move to bedroom level as many did in the floods of 1947.