Severe flooding in Lake District as dam bursts, October 1927
by Katy Stoddard from on (#X4WZ)
Villages near Helvellyn and Ullswater, in what is now Cumbria, flooded when the Keppel Cove dam washed away in a storm
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.
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