My wife and self tried our best to get out of Kelham Mills and into the street, but had to make our way back into [the] house, and only just managed it. Carried Mrs Andrews back into house. The prayer book was found in the mud after the receding of the water”.

In 1917 William Andrews donated this prayer book to the city’s museum collections, and remembered:

“My house was on the premises of John Charles & Sons, Kelham Forge and Rolling Mills. The water was between 5 & 6ft in my house.

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