Floods at Hopwas

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Date:1905 - 1922 (c.)

Description:A woman with baby and two small children looks at a flooded road at Hopwas, possibly Lichfield Road between Tamworth and Hopwas where it crosses the Tame valley. This area regularly floods.

A colour-tinted postcard published by J.H. Henton, Post Office, Hopwas. This postcard was posted at Tamworth to Birmingham in the early 1920s, but the photograph is earlier.

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Women's Wear Rivers, Streams & Brooks River Tame Housing Costume & Textiles Children's Wear Canals Canals Buildings, Architecture, Monuments Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Agriculture & Countryside 20th Century Costume

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Image courtesy of: The Roy Lewis Postcard Collection

Donor ref:Roy Lewis-836 (240/48404)

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