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April 6, 2024

HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY: The flood of ’47

By SALLY RYAN COSTIK Curator, Bradford Landmark Society

In a city that had experienced major floods many times in the past, the Flood of 1947 is considered to hold the all-time flood record in Bradford.

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