Flood level - The Harbour Inn, Blackshore Quay, Southwold, Suffolk. IP18 6TA.
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greysman
N 52° 19.278 E 001° 39.714
31U E 408799 N 5797618
Recording the infamous flood of 1953 which did massive damage all along the North Sea coastline. In England 307 people were killed in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
Waymark Code: WMZ8RW
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/30/2018
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This Grade II listed building is of c1840 construction with C20th alteration and extensions. it is rendered and whitewashed brick with hipped pantile roofs with brick stacks on the east range. It is a double pile plan in two parallel ranges.
The east front is of two storeys and three windows with a central panelled door in a glazed porch, one 8/8 unhorned sash to the left of the porch and one C20th two-light casement right of the porch, both under segmental heads. There are three 8/8 unhorned sashes to the first floor and a dentilled eaves cornice.
The west front is also two storeys but two windows with single-storey square porches projecting to the right and left of the elevation. Windows are two C20th ground-floor casements, one C20th casement to the first floor and an 8/8 horned sash to the right.
The entrance to the pub is the rightmost porch on the west side, up three steps then down five meaning the floor is some 50cm below the outside ground level.
The flood mark is on the pub's west elevation at the first floor level between the windows. It is painted directly onto the wall, a modern replacement for the painted timber sign which was in place as recently as 2015.
The flood took place overnight Saturday, 31st January and the early morning of Sunday, 1st February 1953 and was the result of a northerly wind, a depression, and an exceptionally high spring tide all coming together with devestating result all along the North Sea coasts.
This flood mark is some 2m above ground level.
Floods here are a common occurance and there is one mark in the bar some 1.7m above the floor from the 2013 inundation, the front bar would have been completely full of water.
Natural or man made event?: Natural
What type of marker?: Painted line.
When did this occur?: 31st Jan. and 1st Feb.1953
Website related to the event..: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
A picture showing the level along with any markers telling of what had occurred can be used. Better yet would be a picture of you or someone standing next to the high level mark, that would show if you would have been just wading or completely submersed.