So you thought this week's floods in Portsmouth were bad... | Nostalgia

Flooding in Portsmouth is nothing new as Tuesday’s Storm Barra was quick to prove.

By Deborah Croker
Wednesday, 8th December 2021, 8:25 pm

It’s an occupational hazard, all part of living on an island city at sea level.

What also never changes is the mess, damage and heartbreak the water leaves in its wake.

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Portsmouth Corporation electric tram No 19 negotiating floods in Commercial Road after a summer cloudburst in August 1911.

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Broad Street, Old Portsmouth, 1910. Picture: costen.co.uk
Commercial Road, Portsmouth, flooded after a rainstorm in 1911.
Rider after the storm - Southsea Common, December 1910. Hurricane force winds and a high tide on December 16 left the common flooded.
Broad Street, Old Portsmouth. Undated.
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