Hereford Floods 1968.

                  Here is a selection of wonderful pics of the Herefordshire floods from 1968.

                 A very special thank you to Gary Phillips for sharing these unseen pics with us.

                                                        Jan 1968 flood - St Martins

                                                               Jan 1968 Wye Flood

                                                          Looking towards Hunderton.

Below the walls of the General Hospital.

The Wye Bridge.

 

 

Many Thanks

Gary Phillips



Wiggin in Herefordshire.

Please take a look through this fascinating series of cartoons. They were drawn by Hereford artist Gerald Newton-Sealey celebrating the 21st anniversary of the first production melt at Hereford's Henry Wiggin plant on Monday 23rd May 1953. The cartoons were originally reproduced in Wiggin News. They take a light hearted look through all different aspects of Herefordshire life and has some fascinating facts within them.  
Index.
1. Hereford Castle & City Walls
2. Notes on Old Hereford
3. Popular Pastimes of Old Hereford
4. Coningsby Hospital, Hereford
5. Hereford Street Names
6. The Old House, Hereford
7. The Chained Libraries of Hereford.
8. Hereford City Plate and Regalia.
9. Hereford and the Coaching Age.
10.Weobley.
11. Fownhope.
12. Madley.
13. Eardisland.
14. Hoarwithy.
15. Marden.
16. Kilpeck.
17. Pembridge.
18. Goodrich.
19. Holmer.
20. Abbydore.
21. Hope under Dinmore.
22. Edvin Loach.
23. Eardisley.
24. Eaton Bishop.
25. Much Marcle.
26. Ashperton.
27. Peterchurch.
28. Shobdon.
29. Holme Lacy.
30. Monnington on Wye.
31. Dorstone.
32. Withington.
33. Clodock.
34. Colwall.
35. Ballingham and Carey.
36. Orleton.
37. Brockhampton.
38. Leintwardine.
39. Llangarren.
40. Clifford.
41. Huntington.
42. Whitbourne.

                            

 

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A very big THANK YOU to Caz Chapman for uncovering this great gem from our past. 

The River Wye, Hereford. (South of Old Bridge)

A very quiet looking Bishop's Meadow with John Douglas Hatton. circa 1890.

The Wye in flood, possibly the flood of 1899.

After the flood's August 1912.

Yet another flood.

The Hatton family taking tea in July 1894 with Parker's Steamer behind.

Lower river , near Putson.

Another early pic of Hereford in flood with the General Hospital in the background.

Only the fashion's seem to have changed.circa 1899.

A policeman on the beat in 1893.

The Hereford Lifeboat on Lifeboat Saturday launched from the Castle Green October 1908.

Another picture from Lifeboat Saturday.


This is a collection of old pics taken south of the old Wye Bridge in Hereford around the turn of the 19th century.
They have been very kindly donated to us by the Hatton Family for all to see.You may have seen some of these pics before in some of Anne Sandford's publications in the 1980s but sadly these books are no longer in print.
Once again a very big thank you to Ed Hatton for allowing us to use these wonderful pics for all to see.

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