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 by Peter Machan

In 1864, the recently completed Dale Dam burst, flooding much of the Victorian Sheffield, killing 250 people and affecting the lives of hundreds of families from Bradfield, down the Loxley Valley, through Hillsborough and down beyond the Wicker. This fully illustrated book, based on eye-witness accounts, tells the dramatic story of Britain's worst dam burst disaster, and how it affected the lives of ordinary people who lived or worked in its raging path. It is ironic that the dam, built to ensure a constant supply of water to power the mills downstream, was to obliterate every mill in the valley.