It was a great night! One of the best of our lives. Despite the weather, the lorry carrying the salmon and the other carrying the veg going into the dyke...despite the boat with the flowers bobbing at sea...and the snow which stranded us and others an hour short of Sutton the night before....the evening was a great success. The lorries were rescued. The boat did deliver. We were spared a power cut.

Over 230 of you braved the snow and the ice and wisely disregarded erroneous traffic reports to be there. Many of you showed up early and stayed late....some until 3 or 4a.m...proving we're still young...at heart. It was indeed a night to remember. One we believe made a whole lot of people very happy and gave us all an experience we can hold on to until we're so old we can't remember. My wife Linda will remember it as the night she learned to jive and became part of a community, however briefly, for which she feels great affection.

Thank you all for coming and making the Sutton Flood Reunion a success beyond our wildest dreams. I'd like to think we'll do it again in fifty years time, but alas we'll have to leave it to John Monk's young people to carry on what may in time, become a great tradition

Who Came...

Elizabeth Atkinson, Rebecca Atkinson, Sue Bailey, Dorothy Baker, Grace Baker, Harry Baker, Jenifer Baker, Joyce Baker, Tony Baker, Kathleen Baldwin, Beryl Banks, Pete Baumber, Avril Biggin, Mary Biggin, Phyllis Boot, Christopher Bradburn, Maud Brocklebank, Nigel Brocklebank, Joyce Brown, John Bryant, Michael Burton, Bill Campion, Arthur Campling, Chris Chatterton, Joe Clark, Kathleen Coote, Pam Coote, Martin Corbett, Gillian Corran, Jennifer Corran, Clive Cory, Nigel Cory, Norman Coupland, Audrey & Norman Cox, Teresa Cox, Greta & John Crawford, Phyllis Crawford, Alec Crow, John Culkin, Sue Culkin, Thelma Culkin, Jean Dawson, Sue Dowdeswell, Gill Drakes, Trixie Drakes, Gloria Dransfield, Patricia Edwards, Dorothy Elsom, John Elvin, Ian Espley, Alan Evans, Jane Garton, Julie Gask, Sue Gask, Valerie Gaunt, Pam Gay, Gwen Graham, John Graham, Betty Green, Peta Green, Pat Gregory, Alan Grundy, Bud Hadden, Eileen Hadden, Sally Hadden, Sandra Hare, Dennis Harris, Janet Harris, Andrew Head, Norman Hillyard, Dick Houltby, Robert Howell, Simon Howell, Jesse Hubbard, Roger Hubbard, Christopher Hunt, Hermione Hunt, Stephen Hunt, David James, Sheila Johnson, Val Jordan, David Kind, Eileen Kirk, John Lake, Mary & John Leadbeater, Peter Light, Joyce Lisk, David Lutwyche, Chris Mager, Gladys Mason, Susan Maxwell, Marjorie May, Maureen May, Valerie May, Andy Mayfield, Jill Mayfield, Pam Mayfield, Peggy Mayfield, Audrey McEwan, Don McEwan, Robert McEwan, Malcolm McLennan, Brian Middleton, Mike Mitchell, Christine Monk, John Monk, Ann Morgan, Doreen Morgan, Christine Morley, Jean Morley, Sylvia Moxon, Janice Murray, Pat Murray, Robin Nicholson, Aubrey Otter, Malcolm Peplow, Sue Pinder, Janet Raithby, Ken Richardson, Margaret Richardson, Audrey Riggall, Anne Rowsell, Chris Rowsell, Marjorie Rowsell, Robina Rowsell, Dorothy Rushby, Bud Shields, Nigel Shipman, Valda Short, Christine Simons, Jean Simons, Malcolm Simons, John Sizer, Elsie Sleeman, Angela Smith, David Snartt, Bob Sparrow, Sally-Anne Stanbury, Susan Tester, Carole Tinker, Keith Tow, Kelvyn Tow, Malcolm Usher, Andrew Walker, Bob Walker, Tony Walker, Idina Watkiss, Nicolas Watson, Robert Watson, Tim Watson, Kathleen Wattam, Eva West, Gordon West, Shirley West, Jean White, Val White, Jack Willey, Mary Willey, Valerie Willey, Connie Willows, John Willows, Bob Wilyman, John Winter, Joan Wolsey, Sandra Woods

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From Barbara Clark
In 1953 I was nine. We lived in the Methodist Church Manse on the corner of Park Road East. My father, Rev Cyril Clarke was the Methodist Minister for Sutton and lots of the small villages around. My mother was Constance Clarke. My father was on the Flood Committee. After Sutton my parents worked in Walsall, Newport (South Wales) and then in Hong Hong for many years before retiring to Somerset, near Bath, where they lived happily until well into their 80s. If anyone remembers us - Barbara, Alison and Douglas Clarke, it would be nice to get in touch again. I have just come back from the funeral of Mrs Dorothy Clark. She was married to Michael Clark who was the Headmaster of Sutton Primary School in 1953. They lived opposite us in Park Road East and had, at that stage one baby, Susan, who was just born at the time of the Floods. At Dorothy Clark's funeral I met several people who knew Sutton in 1953. They mentioned the reunion and your website. From the list of people who attended I recognise John Graham. I wish I had known about the reunion, but it is good to read that you had such a great night. Could you post this, or circulate please. Many thanks and best wishes Barbara Clarke

beclarke@nosweat99.freeserve.co.uk

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