Water water everywhere.

The high tide at wivenhoe before the barrier was built,so this must be about 1980's .George the  manager and his wife were from the Newcastle area.

 I remember it flooding like that on my first walk to Wivenhoe near the end of October 198's - before the barrier was completed. As I went to the sea wall footpath a bloke warned me that it would be a high Autumn tide, but it didn't look that bad so I carried on (oops! I had just arrived here as a green young student) - on the way back the same bloke offered to give me a piggy (declined) back over Bethany Street (and I am convinced it was the local legend Billy the Fish). The water on the front was higher than on your picture, but a couple of local kids were enjoying trying to ride their bikes through it! Cheers. Hazel
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 Apparently my great-grandmother, who lived on West Street, I think, used to cut a notch into the leg on her kitchen table to show where the level of the tide had come up to! (and that would be... well I suppose in the 1910s and 1920s).Helen Barrell.