London floods

From a certain archive:

Fulham Floods of 1928 and the heroism of Madge Franckeiss

The floods were described by the West London Observer the following week (13 January 1928):

[The water] burst through the river walls and banks as if they were
made of paper, and inundated all the surrounding districts. The plight
of the people living near the river can be better imagined than
described, the calamity occurring in the pitch darkness of early
morning. The flood carried all before it, breaking down all barriers
and rushing into the basements and rooms on the street level, doing
inestimable damage and imperilling the lives of all those who happened
to be sleeping in the inundated rooms.

Madge described what happened to a reporter of the local paper, the West London Observer:

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