Thames flood level markers at Trinity Hospital, Greenwich. The marker on the right is for 1928
Formed
6 to 7 January 1928
Fatalities
14[1][2]
Areas affected
London (City, Southwark, Lambeth, Westminster, Hammersmith, Putney, Greenwich, Woolwich)
Surgewatch.org UK coastal flooding severity, High 5/6[3]
The 1928 Thames flood was a disastrous flood of the River Thames that affected much of riverside London on 7 January 1928, as well as places further downriver. Fourteen people died and thousands were made homeless when floodwaters poured over the top of the Thames Embankment and part of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed. It was the last major flood to affect central London, and, along with the disastrous North Sea flood of 1953, helped lead to the implementation of new flood control measures that culminated in the construction of the Thames Barrier in the 1970s.
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