Yorkshire evening Post March 17, 1947

Swollen Rivers after Thaw
Flood Comes To Yorkshire
Refuge in Bedrooms

Flood anxieties has followed the rapid thaw all over Yorkshire. Rivers have swollen and some have overflowed.

Bentley Toll Bar, Doncaster, has flooded from field drains and families have abandoned living rooms and taken refuge upstairs.

Families are also living in bedrooms at Catcliffe near Rotherham where the Rother has overflowed.

The Dearne has overflowed at Darfield, where eight families have taken their bedrooms and two miles away the Wombwell Station Road greyhound track is partially underwater.

The rising river Don stopped the ferry service at Old Denaby