From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Today marks the anniversary of Britain’s worst natural disaster in modern history.
There have been many films of the 1953 North Sea flood.
This one delves a bit deeper into the suffering of those affected.
I don’t think anybody alive today can have the slightest understanding of the fortitude and determination shown by people in those days, who lived through events like this flood, the winter of 1948 and the floods that followed. Not least because the country was still on its knees after the war.
Not only is this film a tribute to them, but also a reminder that, no matter the attempts by the BBC to pretend our weather is more extreme than ever before, we should all be grateful we are not living in 1953.
