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Pictures of storms in Dorset through the years 34

Pictures of storms in Dorset through the years

Christchurch Quay and Quomps with a frozen River Stour during the great snowstorm of 1963 . Picture: Red House Museum
The entrance to Bournemouth Winter Gardens (the first winter gardens made of glass) during the great snowstorm of 1908 	Picture: Peters Collection
Sandbanks Road in Poole is flooded after the sea wall is swallowed up by the incoming tide during high winds and rain in 2008
The west side of Christchurch High Street and Castle Street under 3 inches of wet snow. Picture taken between 1905 and 1914	 Picture: Red House Museum
A stormy sea on Bournemouth West Beach in 1965
Deep snow at Wareham Cross in 1978. Picture: Arthur Grant
Wessex Water workmen battle round a telephone box to repair a burst water main in Mudeford in wake of a great storm in 1990
Bournemouth War Memorial and Bournemouth Town Hall after snow fell in 1987.
Snow in Christchurch in 1985
Snow in Bournemouth Square in 1987
Church Street in Christchurch during the great snowstorm of 1908.	Picture: Red House Museum
A truck is overturned at Holes Bay in Poole during a storm in February 1990.
January 1963 these four children at Poole found the snowy weather ideal when they made an igloo in their garden which held six comfortably. With an electric torch for illumination, it was a marvellous place to play during the severe winter.
For the first time in many years the River Avon burst its banks at Fordingbridge after a storm in 1990.
Christchurch Quay is flooded in stormy weather in 2009
Iford Caravan Park is flooded after the 1979 storm.
Property in Parkstone was damaged in storm of 1966.
Flooded West Quay Road in Poole after a storm in 1968.
Donald Figg is carried to safety when Wimborne flooded  after the storm of 1979.
Residents at Sturminster Marshall  prepared sandbags to protect homes in the village from the flood waters of the 1979 storm.
Semley Hollow near Shaftesbury taken 1916. Picture: Gold Hill Museum.
South Causeway between Stoborough and Wareham, looking towards Wareham. This was the main road to Corfe Castle and Swanage as the bypass had not been built by then. Feb 1978. Picture: Wareham Museum.
A giant tree crashed into the roof of a house in Wimborne Road during the 1990 gales.
A flooded Blandford after the storm of 1979.
The Quay Inn at Wareham Quay. Feb 1978. Picture: Wareham Museum.
A flooded Christchurch after the 1979 storm.
Parts of Wimborne were cut off by flood waters after the storm in June 1979.
Flooding at Christchurch in the aftermath of the 1966 storm.
The roof of this building in Wimborne Road, Winton was ripped off in 70mph gales in Janaury 1990.
A National Trust sign warns holidaymakers that Brownsea Island has been closed due to the heatwave baking the country in the summer of 1976.
Poole park lake frozen over 17th January 1985
A snowy Poole High Street January in 1987.
Snow causing problems on the roads around Poole in 2009.
In 2009 Olivia Halford and Catherine Perry enjoyed tobogganing at Badbury Rings
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