This picture was taken in Feb 1953 at Sutton on Sea. It shows P.C. Roy Malt and P.C Arthur Tidswell of the Lincolnshire Constabulary. Roy told us "The upstairs of the Bachus Hotel was where we were accommodated and we reached this by a ladder from the street to the upstairs window. When the tide started to come in we had to go upstairs and the last one pulled the ladder up.

"We lived on boilled potates and cold luncheon meat. Luckily one of the bedrooms had a fireplace and so one of the first jobs when the tide went out was to borrow a van and go to the Railway Station to get some coal and this was the total of our warmth!!!"

"When the floods started in Skegness I was in the Tower cinema, I can't remember what the film was showing. We were told to leave and were given a ticket to come back again another time. I was with a crowd of lads and we went to the Sun Castle to play cards, the first we knew of the water inside the building was when someone threw an orange over the balcony and we heard it splash in the water. I was a photographer with Walfred's so went home, grabbed my camera and went out to take photographs. The water was up to the railings in the Compass gardens near the Clock Tower and in the bowling greens.

"Later I learned my school teacher was flooded out in the bungalow estate north of Ingoldmells. He had just managed to throw his photographic equipment into the false roof. I had a cycle master (a bicycle with a small engine in the back wheel to power it), I went down and he had only his bicycle, his car was swamped in mud), he loaded his handle bars with bags and boxes, held onto my shoulder and I pulled him out and back to Skegness."