“The Flooding was the most serious experienced in Salford”* .......... September 1946

Now I knew about the Salford flood of 1946, but had completely forgotten about it.

I rediscovered it while doing research for something entirely different.

And having found it decided it was worthy of a mention, after all there will be people who remember it and many more who will have been told the stories of what happened on the  night of September 20 and 21.

Nor was it just confinded to Salford.  “The Mersey burst its banks in the Northernden area yesterday and last night the Manchester Northenden road was cut by the floods, grain barges broke from their moorings in the River Irewell near Exchange Station and were carried a mile and half into the Chip Canal, in Collyhurst Road 73 children were marooned .... and the L.N.R.R service between Bradford and Halifax and Keighley and Halifax has been suspended.”*

So I shall now sit back and wait for the memories to come in.  I was going to say flood in but that would be in poor taste.

Location; Salford & Manchester








Picture; extract from the Manchester Guardian, September 21, 1946

*Rescues By Rowing Boat in Manchester Floods, Salford Rest Centres for Homeless, Manchester Guardian, September 21, 1946