A Zoom Webinar
Marcus Taylor: Lewes in Storm and Flood
For our first 2023 talk Marcus Taylor will speak about the flooding of the river Ouse in October 2000 and the so-called Great Storm of 1987. Both had a huge impact on Lewes and its residents; if you were here then, you will have memories of your own. Many people had to leave their homes for months after the relatively brief but deep and sudden surge of water.
However, such floods have happened on quite a number of occasions over the past century or so. Using interviews and many previously unseen photographs, the effects of this natural disaster are vividly outlined.
Similarly, in the middle of an October night, ‘the hurricane that wasn’t’ caused widespread damage to buildings throughout the town in 1987, uprooting trees, closing roads and affecting businesses. First-hand accounts will remind many of us of the chaos that met our eyes the next morning.
Lewes flood 2000 © Heart Radio; Storm damage at Southover Church, Lewes 1987 © Alan Pilfold (Click image to enlarge)
To join this Lewes History Group talk, you need to
1) register your intention in advance
2) receive LHG’s confirmation email with a link to the talk
3) click on that link to attend the talk 10 minutes before it starts
Lewes History Group Members can attend their talks for free. They will send members emails with a link to Zoom registration. Then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as above.
Non-members of LHG can buy a ticket (£4) from TicketSource. The ticket will provide a link to Zoom registration. Then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as above.
Please join the webinar at 7:20pm.
We would recommend a computer screen or an iPad as a minimum screen-size for viewing these webinars.
The presenters will be speaking live, and you can ask questions by typing in the Q&A box in Zoom.
See the Talks page for a list of forthcoming monthly events organised by the Lewes History Group.
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