England Flooded (1935)

Item title reads - England flooded. Devastating effect of continuous rain. Various locations in England. L/S of flooded farmland with trees sticking out of the top. M/S of ’No trespassers’ notice in the middle of the water. M/S of lorry driving through water, a man follows on a bicycle. L/S of a church behind a flooded field, M/S as a couple walk through the water. L/S pan across floods at Stratford-upon-Avon. M/S’s of football pitch and racecourse covered in water. M/S of a view from a train in the Midlands showing the flooded countryside. Various aerial views of the valley of the Medway which show waterlogged fields. M/S of Winchfield in Hampshire where the flooding has caused a landslide, which in turn caused a milk train to crash. Various shots of the wreckage of the train, with carriages on their sides and milk churns inside. L/S aerial view as men clear the path and put the earth in rail carts. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV