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BRIDGE SWEPT AWAY BY GREAT FLOODS FOLLOWING CLOUDBURST. Lakes miles wide swamped areas of Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire as a result of torrential rains which caused the Grand Union Canal to burst its banks. Roads were made impassable by the floods, and villages isolated The main line to the North of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway was disorganised. PHOTO SHOWS:- The almost new Haversham Bridge, Buckinghamshire, wrecked by the great onrush of flood water. 18 October 1939