If the money is agreed to planning permission could be sought as early as this July it s 65 years since hundreds of people died along the East Coast during the tidal surge described as one of the worst peace time disasters ever during Saturday the 31st of January 953 freak winds drove a storm down the North Sea More than 300 people died with 24000 homes damaged or destroyed Tony Koch was a child living in Felixstowe I came right up to my bedroom rarely and we got kind of more or less been a night on the roof until that subsided and we had tide marks everywhere there was furniture floating around my grandfather had a boat because he did the ferry from new East to nuke out West and he rode up printer street near the football ground and he rescued a few people that were trapped and the Morial to those who died is on Lang a road in Felixstowe a blue tile 6 foot 6 inches high can be seen that was the depth of the floodwater Nick Barber the mayor of Felix day will be at a memorial service t