Location

Impact of the Flood

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Herne Bay

·     Promenade buried under thousands of tons of shingle

·     Road blocked by four foot wall of smashed rowing boats

·     Valuable council documents washed away

Beltinge

·     Massive cliff collapse: cliff top retreats 100 yards

·     Clifftop road with gates and gardens of Miramar Hotel tumble into sea

Reculver

·     Huge breaches open the sea wall between Reculver and Birchington

·     500 men work round the clock plugging gaps with 22,000 sandbags

Wantsum Marshes

·     5000 acres of marsh and farmland flooded in the triangle of land formed by Birchington, Sarre and Reculver resulting in huge livestock losses

·     Farmers told land useless for five years

Westbrook

·     Pavilion wrecked and foundations undermined

·     Huge concrete slabs, ten feet across, hurled into auditorium

·     Gaping 60 foot hole appears in  promenade.

Margate

·     Nine miles of seafront smashed with cost of repairs estimated at half a million pounds

·      Sea wall holds in most places but mountainous seas destroy stone pier and batter down lighthouse.

·      7000 deck chairs and 94 bathing chalets swept away

·     Almost every foreshore catering kiosk washed away

·     Town blacked out but band plays on at Dreamland: dancing continues into early hours

Sandwich

·     River Stour bursts its banks flooding quay and riverside properties

·     Waves lap against the 18^th green at Royal St. Georges

Deal

·     Sea pours over the promenade for four hours

·     Deal Castle moat submerged under four feet of water

·     High Street deluged to a depth of three feet