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When the Sea Comes In - exhibition and Heritage Flood Trail for clues on the beach and in the villag
Heritage Open Day: Discover the signs of the floods from 1953 to current day. Walk the sea wall barriers, find the clues in sluices and water level marks using a special map around the beach and green in Walberswick. Start your discovery at the Heritage Hut. Called one of the worst natural disasters in history, the Great East Coast Flood storms of 1953 battered the coast line of East Anglia. Walberswick has since been flooded in 2007 and 2013 and the village has tried many ways to prevent the sea coming in and the flooding. Our exhibition When the Sea Comes in looks at what caused the storm, why the outcomes would not be so bad if it happened today and tells the story of the 1953 event through new oral history soundscapes with voices of villagers who were alive and very young at the time.
Saturday 14 Sep 2024 and Sunday 15 Sep 2024
The Green, Walberswick, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6TT
Sat 14 Sep:9.30-4pm; Sun 15 Sep:9.30-4pm; Free Entry.
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