The Great Drought of 1934 (UK) - Housewives buying Waters by the bucketful in London. The period between October 1932 to October 1934 was the third driest 24-month period on record at the time, people were reduced to collecting water from rivers in some areas and to buying it, particularly in cities such as London,

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