I was born in 1959 so was just about nine when the heavens opened for two days solid on my Birthday Weekend.
My parents were so worried they confined me to home in Burnt Ash Hill all the time so I never saw anything spectacular outside except for our usual mid-garden seasonal puddle becoming a large pond.
After that my dad planted a willow tree there which has grown extremely well since in the previously (till 1926) Burnt Ash Farm grounds.
I heard about Central Lewisham flooding and within weeks my parents were off to buy a splendid (undamaged) large Persian rug heavily discounted in the ‘Flood Sale’ (one of many over the years as the carpets were sold in the basement by the River Quaggy under the high pavement).
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