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a great quantity of the adjoining land was flooded. The members 

 of the Hertford Fire Brigade were engaged on Wednesday evening 

 in pumping the water out of the basement of Dr. J. T. Tasker- 

 Evans' residence in Fore Street, which had become flooded owing 

 to the overflowing of the Gulphs. The water rushed down through 

 the garden and into Dr. Tasker-Evans' and Mrs. C. Young's 

 houses, while a stream rushed underneath Dr. Tasker-Evans' 

 gateway into Fore Street, which for a time became a water-course, 

 part of the water running down Fore Street and part through 

 Market Street and Railway Street. In The Folly there appeared 

 every likelihood of a serious flood; when the gates near the old 

 waterworks were opened the torrent rushed through, and the strip 

 of land between the old River Lea and Paper Mill Ditch was soon 

 submerged, a portion of the pathway being washed away to the 

 depth of four feet by the force of the water. At the Lock several 

 of the pleasure-boats were washed away and were subsequently 

 found upon the towing-path. 



At Ware the cellars of many of the houses in the lower part of 

 Star Street were flooded during Wednesday night by the rising of 

 the Barge river, and the cottages in the vicinity of Angel Road 

 were swamped. The meadows near the river were flooded, and 

 the water on the towing-path was two or three feet deep. The 

 road between Dane End and Sacombe Pond for a length of about 

 a mile and a half was rendered impassable for foot-passengers, the 

 water in some places being between three and four feet deep. 



This is the greatest flood which has occurred in Hertfordshire 

 since the flood in the valley of the (lade on the 3rd of August, 

 1879, which was described in our 'Transactions' (Vol. I, p. 159) 

 by the late Mr. J. E. Littleboy, but that was partial, occurring only 

 in the west of Hertfordshire, while this was general, aff'ecting the 

 greater part of the county. The heavy rainfall, also, which 

 immediately preceded the 1879 flood, was confined to the Midland 

 counties, while on this occasion the fall was excessive over nearly 

 the whole of the South of England and the whole of Wales except 

 the extreme north. 





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