Believed to have been taken from Stan Ward’s bed-room window it certainly looks wet and watery – 14th January 1957 – thawing snow left over two feet of water on Brotton Road, Carlin How. Derick Pearson tells us: “I remember this incident well. Just past where the white car, to the right were some bays where the rail wagons seen on the right used to go over the top to tip coal into the bays below. They were of course flooded deeply and we as kids were sat on top of the bay walls watching the waves come in as the cars went by. As we moved I lost my footing and fell into the dirtiest, blackest water you could imagine. Apart from getting a couple of mouthfuls and feeling rather sick before I struggled out I looked like a wet chimney sweep. When I got home which “was just up the street from the garage” I got a hiding off my mother for falling in. I was hoping she would feel sorry for me!”
Details courtesy of Jean Wiggins and many thanks to Derick Pearson for the memories.
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