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Original Text (Annotation: EPW016447 / 186229)

' This is the Rochdale Canal bridge that was undermined by a very swollen river Irk on 11 July 1927. The flood was worsened when the bank of Chadderton Hall Lake (just visible top right) collapsed and emptied into the Irk. 3 Middleton people died as a result of the flood. '