Information from Malcolm Nunn, Bradfield Parish Council Archivist. This is an image used in slide lectures/ magic lantern shows by photographer Mr. Peacock. His notes to accompany the lectures also included some of his experiences while taking the photograph. This view shows the houses which at the time of the flood stood at the corner of Neepsend Lane and Bardwell Road. I mean the houses on the right hand - a young lady and her father resided there. At midnight they heard a creaking noise and thought that thieves were breaking in. Hastily dressing himself the father hurried downstairs to capture the intruders; just as he arrived at the door the water burst it open and directly all the lower rooms were flooded; the father had great difficulty in wading through the water and regaining the stairs which he mounted as rapidly as possible. All the time the water kept rising and it went up the steps as quickly as he did to the bedrooms. Had he remained one minute longer down below he would have drowned. Opening the window to shout for help which no-one could give as their neighbours were worse off than they were. It was just light enough for them to see the people who had climbed on the roofs of the houses opposite and washed away one by one and disappearing amid the angry waves. I took this view 12 years later after the flood as a memento- as the lady was leaving the house. The old buildings then remained exactly as the flood left them. The iron plate I have just attended to at the corner of Bardwell Road is fixed to the new building which now stands at the corner and would have been occupied a position above the door and between the chamber window of this house. The gas companies were seriously damaged 1,000 tons of coke and 10,000 feet of timber were carried away. The Neepsend Tavern was partly submerged and the boundary walls of the river were carried away and many of the houses were gutted. For more information see: and The Great Sheffield 1864 Harrison. Ref: 942.74 S. The Collapse of the Dale Dyke Dam 1864, Geoffrey Amey. Ref. 942.74 SST. This picture is possibly the wrong way round.