THE weather has taken a turn for the worse and, fittingly, today’s Nostalgia takes us on a soggy trip back to the swinging 1960s. Gazette reader Colin James dropped us a line with these dramatic pictures of flooding at the bottom of Horkesley Hill, in Colchester. They were taken midway through the decade and show the problems caused by the rising River Stour. As you can see, buses struggled to get through and a white car can be seen bobbing in the water.
In deep water - the flooded River Stour at Horkesley Hill, in the mid-1960s The flooding was so severe that the bridge on the A134 was completely washed away, cutting off the old road that went through Nayland.