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The flood of 1953 along the East Anglian coast occurred at night on January 31st and Canvey Island in Essex was hit particularly hard by the event. Richard Pike, a film-maker living in Southend, went out the next morning to film scenes at Canvey island and then later at Harwich. At Canvey there are scenes of the water pouring in on the next tide, people being rescued by boat, a house to house search, flooded roads, interior shots in the schools where facilities for looking after the homeless had been hurriedly prepared, and the cleaning up operation which followed. Richard Pike, who had built his own sound recording system, recorded a commentary, and the film was distributed to Essex schools. The East Anglian Film Archive holds other amateur footage of flooding in the region as well as newsreel footage from 1953, and television footage of later flooding in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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