Storm Desmond has wreaked havoc across the north west of England. One of the villages affected is Glenridding, near Ullswater, which is experiencing the worst flooding since 1927, when the dam at Keppel Cove burst its banks.
The storm affected much of the north west coast of England as well as Wales and the west of Ireland, where many drowned (Inishkea Islands lost so many of their young men at sea that the isles were abandoned shortly afterwards).
The Manchester Guardian carried dramatic eyewitness accounts of the flooding of the sanatorium in Lancaster that led to three deaths.
Four years later the dam was breached again, releasing thousands of tons of water from Keppel Cove Tarn and flooding Glenridding once more.
