Bourne of 
1903-4 
Flow out of 
Bourne 
culvert less 
than volume 
of Bourne 
at “ Rose and 
Crown.” 
Water lost 
from Bourne. 
In 1877 flow 
out of Bourne 
culvert more 
than Bourne 
at “ Rose and 
Crown.”’ 
With present 
Bourne, flow 
out of Bourne 
culvert not 
more than half 
of Bourne flow 
below ‘‘ Rose 
and Crown,” 
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and Crown,” Coulsdon. This Bourne was reported to 
the Corporation of Croydon on the 12th April, 1897, 
by reason of the Bourne channels having been filled up, 
and the necessity of opening them out or making new 
channels should the flow of the Bourne continue, which 
fortunately it did not. This was the last flow of the 
Bourne previous to the flow that is now taking place. 
The Bourne of 1903-4 broke out below the ‘* Rose 
and Crown,” Coulsdon, on the 22nd November, 1903. 
The flow was 2°85 cubic feet per minute on the 23rd 
November. It increased to 284°36 cubic feet per 
minute on the 5th January last, after which it diminished 
to 201°81 cubic feet per minute on the 26th January, 
after which it rapidly increased, and on the 23rd 
February it was flowing at the rate of 1,494 cubic feet 
per minute, from which time it has gradually subsided, 
and on the 10th May, 1904, it was flowing at the rate 
of 81:27 cubic feet per minute. The largest flow out 
of the Bourne culvert at Croydon occurred on the 20th 
February last, when 911:63 cubic feet per minute 
flowed out, and on the 23rd February the flow was 
86666 cubic feet per minute—a very much smaller 
quantity than was actually flowing at the “ Rose and 
Orown,” Coulsdon—a most unusual thing, showing 
that the water of the Bourne had been lost and diverted 
to other channels than those which were originally 
designed for its reception. 
It will be noted that on the 14th February, 1877, 
2,120 cubic feet per minute flowed out of the Bourne 
culvert, the quantity flowing at that date at the ‘ Rose 
and Crown” being 1,745°7 cubic feet per minute. 
With the present Bourne matters are reversed, and the 
flow out of the Bourne Culvert at Croydon is not more 
than one-half of the flow below the “ Rose and Crown ” 
