Five families evacuated from homes in middle of the night after a landslide destroyed wall early yesterday
Distressed residents scrambled from their terraced homes after tonnes of rubble came tumbling down in rain
Emergency services rescued families from four separate properties as their bathrooms and kitchens flooded
Fallen wall separates two rows of terrace houses built on different levels of a hillside estate in Nottingham
Families evacuated after landslide causes 70ft wall to collapse onto their properties in Nottingham
Updated: 4 Feb 2021, 16:03
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FAMILIES were evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night after a landslide caused a 70ft wall to collapse into their properties.
Residents in Nottingham were forced to flee their terraced houses after tons of rubble came tumbling down in the pouring rain at 1am on Wednesday morning.
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A 70ft wall collapsed onto their properties in the middle of the nightCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
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Tons of rubble came tumbling down in the pouring rainCredit: BPM Media
Terrified locals were woken by the sound of bricks and earth collapsing into their gardens on Spalding Road and Windmill Lane, in Sneinton, Nottingham.
Couple heard a huge bang as landslide caused wall to collapse in Sneinton street
The couple helped out their neighbours who were evacuated
14:33, 3 FEB 2021
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Lynn and Terry Oakley of Spalding Road (Image: Nottingham Post/Marie Wilson)
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Residents describe chaotic night a 70ft brick wall collapsed into their homes and gardens
There is severe damage to some of the homes
16:54, 3 FEB 2021
Spalding Road residents Sandra and Clifford Lowe after huge wall collapsed next to their home (Image: Nottingham Post/Marie Wilson)
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EJ Bass, from Eynesbury, pictured in 1899.
- Credit: St Neots Museum
St Neots has a proud sporting heritage that is celebrated in the St Neots Museum with displays about some of the town’s sporting heroes.
Until the industrial revolution of the early 1800s everyday life was strenuous enough to keep most working people fit. Many local men were farm workers and women’s lives before the invention of the washing machine and vacuum cleaner involved daily heavy labour. It was during the early Victorian period, as the population increased dramatically and people began to move away from the land and into towns that organised team games for men.