Author: MINISTER OF HEALTH (presented to Parliament by...)
Title: Floods From the River Thames in the County of London (Cmd. 3045) (Report of a Committee Appointed at a Conference of Public Authorities to Consider the Question of....)
Description: London, HMSO 1928 27pp 25x16, stapled pamphlet Very good condition, especially for a fragile item. The first official report into the disastrous London Flood of 7 January 1928, when a combination of heavy flow of water down the Thames with a storm surge in the North /Sea caused floods that left 14 dead, thousands homeless, and caused serious damage to the city. The report - which was initiated a week after the floods, was completed in six weeks and presented to Parliament in March - concluded that better warning systems of storm surges were urgently required, and improved flood prevention works should be urgently investigated. Following the catastrophic floods of January 1953 (which didn't affect London as badly, but killed thousands in Eastern England and the Netherlands), caused by another storm surge in the North Sea, consideration turned to a physical barrier, eventually constructed as the Thames Barrier in the 1970s and 80s.

Keywords: CITY PLANNING London


See more books from our catalog: CITY PLANNING