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Ledgard Bridge, 5.45pm Friday 20th September 1946.
Mirfields lower areas have always being prone to flooding, although in recent years since the construction of a flood alleviation scheme in
Dewsbury, less seriously.
However the "Great Flood" of 1946 as it came to be known was by far the worst in living memory.
Those that remember it recount watching from the bridges as all manor of things were
swept past in the water, farm animals alive & dead, drums & containers of all descriptions, rowing boats & wrecked barges and a hen hut complete with hens sitting on the roof.
This series of
photographs were taken by local man Ben Popperwell over the hour or so that the flood was at its worst.
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