Floods!

A Memory of Dovercourt.

I was 5 years old when I remember looking out of the large window of my mother and father's bedroom in Waddesdon Road and seeing the old schoolyard under water. I remember not being able to go downstairs as the threat of water was too great. I remember two people being taken in by my parents as they had been flooded out on the Bathside which if you know the area was the worst affected place. I remember not having to go to school for quite a time.
I learned in later life just how serious an event it was and how the water rose up and came through the drains. The people who came to stay with us were my godparents and I remember that the man used to give me Owbridges Pastilles to suck to keep me warm.
I later went on to attend the Mayflower school which went on to be the Harwich County Primary when the old Esplanade school was closed.
I then attended the Sir Anthony Deane school in Hall Lane.

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