Description:Floods on Guild Street, Burton-upon-Trent. A Triumph Mayflower is making its way across the level crossing. Bass brewery buildings can be seen to the left and in the distance is the Magistrates Court on Horninglow Street. We are not sure which flooding event this shows but it could be the severe floods of March 1955.
In the foreground are level crossing gates. Around the time of this photograph there were over 80 miles of private brewery railway tracks criss-crossing the town, along with over 30 level-crossing gates controlling the movement of freight over the public roads.