Here you will be able to find some information on The Great Sheffield Flood
On Friday March 11th 1864, exactly at midnight, a calamity, appalling and almost
Unparalleled, occurred along
the course of the river Loxley and the banks of the Don, where it
passes through the city of Sheffield.
An overwhelming flood swept down from an enormous reservoir at Bradfield, carrying
away houses, mills, bridges, and manufactories, destroying property estimated at half a million sterling in value and causing the loss of about 240 human lives.