Wray in North Lancashire was devastated by a freak flash flood on 8 August 1967.

A quarter of the village situated in the Lune Valley was washed away in the disaster.

Despite the destruction caused by the flood - it swept away houses, bridges, livestock, vehicles and furniture - none of the villagers were harmed in the storm.

According to historian Emmeline Garnett it started around 1600 BST.

"There was a cloud burst up on the fells," explains Emmeline, the author of The Wray Flood of 1967: Memories of a Lune Valley Community.

"The flood brought down a tremendous number of trees and it was that that really did all the damage."

The village of Wray in the Lune Valley

Margaret Staveley from Hoskins Farm recalls noticing the sky turning an unusual colour around teatime: "It wasn't raining; the sky had gone an awful colour, I've never seen it since that colour.

She continues: "It was a reddy grey and then all of a sudden the drop started and it started to rain.

"Then this water just came from nowhere really."

The water burst their barn doors and it was soon so deep their calves were almost submerged. After her husband plucked them to safety, they drove a policeman down to the Roeburn river.

The river had burst its banks and they saw household articles including a bathroom cabinets and bits of cars being swept away.

However, it wasn't until Margaret spotted a neighbour's distinctive chair in the river that she realised something was seriously wrong. "I couldn't believe it," she says, "I knew she wouldn't have thrown it out."