A.1 FLOOD HISTORY FOR THE

YEAR DATE TYPE DESCRIPTION OF OBSERVED WATER AREAS PROPERTIES FLOODED, SOURCE OF EVENT LEVELS AFFECTED CASUALTIES AND OTHER INFORMATION IMPACTS 1392 Tidal 100 acres of land flooded at From ‘ The East Coast Southfleet ‘to a depth that Floods’ by Dorothy they remained permanently Summers under water’ 1703 Dec 7th Tidal East Coast 8,000 dead across Great Britain 1730 Tidal 1717 Dec 24th Tidal East Coast 11,000 dead in Europe 1936 April 22nd Tidal Jaywick Brooklands was affected by From dwg 36-391, in flood flooding history folder – Shows which buildings were flooded. Electronic copy on cd from CA Designs. 1936 December Tidal Jaywick

1938 February Tidal Frinton Defences destroyed 12th 1944 Tidal Jaywick

1946 August Tidal Jaywick

1949 March Tidal Jaywick

1953 Jan 31st - Tidal surge with 4.0m Entire 25,000 properties flooded. From ‘ The East Coast Feb 1st exceptionally high tide Anglian 300 people died. Floods’ by Dorothy - combination of spring 4.02 mAODN Felixstowe coastline Infrastructure damage. Summers and from 'North YEAR DATE TYPE DESCRIPTION OF OBSERVED WATER AREAS PROPERTIES FLOODED, SOURCE OF EVENT LEVELS AFFECTED CASUALTIES AND OTHER INFORMATION IMPACTS tide and a full north- 4.05 mAODN Holland-on- Regional £50million damage cost Sea Surge' by Michael west gale. Sea disaster (1953 prices). Pollard Waves of more than 4.62 mAODN Southend 160,000 acres flooded. 20ft were hitting Defences overwhelmed with Norfolk coast. over 1200 breaches. 155 miles of seawall were breached, overtopped, weakened or damaged in .

Deben, Stour and Orwell valleys grazing marshes were overwhelmed. 49,000 acres in Essex were flooded of these 41,760 were agricultural land, the rest were built up areas. There were 22 breaches in the north bank of the Colne estuary. This was the main reason for Jaywick flooding. Harwich The Old Town was flooded The Quay, Esplanade and From 'The East Coast Bathside were affected and Floods' Dorothy Summers the peir was submerged

Albert Street From 'North Sea Surge' by Michael Pollard

Jaywick Water came around the back of Jaywick defence due to overtopping of St Osyth Marsh Walton Defences overtopped and From 'The East Coast damaged. Floods' Dorothy Summers

Clacton Defences overtopped and From 'The East Coast damaged Floods' Dorothy Summers

1958 June Fluvial Ramsey Large areas of land affected. Flood outline in EA Area information.

1958 December Unknown Clacton Castle Hill camping site 13/15th flooded. ‘It was very much under water' YEAR DATE TYPE DESCRIPTION OF OBSERVED WATER AREAS PROPERTIES FLOODED, SOURCE OF EVENT LEVELS AFFECTED CASUALTIES AND OTHER INFORMATION IMPACTS 1960 End of Unknown Jaywick Properties in Jasmine Way From a newspaper article. October were flooded. People were ankle deep in water. 1978 Jan 11th - Tidal Tidal event affecting 1.8m in excess of Harwich / Parts of the Town Quay and 12th coastal settlements predictions! the approach roads were only flooded. 1978 December Tidal and Fluvial/wave High tide with severe Clacton Marine Parade was flooded 31st topping gale force 9 winds 3.10m (3.19m?) Felixstowe 3.46m Holland-on-Sea Frinton The golf course was flooded

Breach in the sea wall at Cudmore Grove, Meresa Island. At 12:45 a level of Clacton / Clacton Golf Course 2.90 AODN was reported at Jaywick

Holland Sluice. Flood outline Meadow Way, Jaywick.

available for Jaywick in Area Properties had water to air

Information folder. There is a bricks copy of a news bulletin about this event in the flood History Butlins Frontage - Baileys folder. amusement arcade was badly damaged

Golf Green Road, Jaywick

Wivenhoe Riverside Quay properties were flooded along with other low lying properties. Clacton . Baileys amusements . Marine Parade . West Clacton road

Jaywick . The Close . Tamarisk Way . The golf course was flooded . Golf Green Road . Meadow Way 1982 December Tidal Jaywick 1999 September Surface water flooding Torrential rain and Mistley Mistley Norman Primary From newspaper article: blocked drains School 'Mistley: Floods dry up funds' - in flood history folder YEAR DATE TYPE DESCRIPTION OF OBSERVED WATER AREAS PROPERTIES FLOODED, SOURCE OF EVENT LEVELS AFFECTED CASUALTIES AND OTHER INFORMATION IMPACTS

Spring tides and gales 1m surge recorded at Felixstowe Garages at Maltings Wharf Dec 16th reported as flooded 2005 Tidal & 17th Waterside protected by sandbags Coast hit by downpour The coast bore the brunt of Soken Water caused a manhole to 2008 13tth Nov Flash flooding the deluge which peaked Thorpe-le- collapse in West Road, Local news paper 1.30pm and 4.30pm Soken which led to the route being GAZETTE shut off between Cherry (Thursday13th Nov 2008) Tree Avenue and Golf Green Road.

A car was stranded at the bottom of Holland road, Clacton. Land Drains failed to cope Water in the house was Great 12 bungalows in the Gorse Local news paper th with heavy rain between 6 inches to a foot; Clacton, Lane area of Great Clacton GAZETTE 2009 17 Feb drainage/highway/sewer th flooding Other houses having Thorpe (Thursday 19 Feb 2009) between three and four B1032 was blocked due to inches of water water on the road

Holland Marshes were cut off

Frinton Road and Tendring Road in Thorpe Land Intensive heavy rain Half an inch of water inside St Osyth and The Mill Dam causeway Local news paper th of sea front house connets St Osyth to Point GAZETTE 2009 17 Feb drainage/highway/sewer th flooding Clearwas completely cu off. (Thursday 19 Feb 2009)