RADISHES Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 I remember that day well..... ....the vicarage death just a street over.........a lot of damage......we met ( i was with a couple of friends) an Australian .....we walked around taking pictures.....a really freak wind.....I still have the negatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Originally posted by Plain Talker owdlad! I can't believe that you got quartered under those circumstances! PT He got "Hung and drawn" first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gopher Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 No ones mentioned all the pre-fabs that blew down on Sky Edge!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostrider Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Originally posted by gopher No ones mentioned all the pre-fabs that blew down on Sky Edge!! I remember the ones at the Manor Top on Windy House Lane. Didn't know the Sky Edge ones blew down. Mind you my bus didn't go past Sky Edge. Where were all the people rehoused? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 If I remember rightly, it also damaged the floodlight pylon on the corner of John Street/Shoreham Street. It didn't actually knock it down, it got hold of the top and bent it over, so that it was (almost) touching the ground. Takes a REAL force to do that to a structure that is designed to take heavy winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommo Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I was twelve at the time, looking out of the classroom window at Tapton school the afternoon before the gale, I noticed that the sky was a unusual pink colour. On the night of the gale I was sleeping in the attic bedroom, I soon legged it downstairs when I thought the bedroom window was going to blow in on my bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Gopher, I lived on sky edge when it all went off.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnttoast Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 I remember walking to work ,treading on the broken slates that were covering the road. Near the Owlerton dog track. they were flying all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterdo Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 It was a real mess. I worked for SCPWD and we spent that day and weeks after tying down roofs and repairing roofs on the Arbourthorne estate, repairing broken water pipes and re-glazing windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 they put steel strips on the roofs of our Skyedge prefab to stop em blowin of in future.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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