FLOODS continue to threaten Oxfordshire, with several alerts still active today.

Despite the deluge of recent weeks, however, we seem to have escaped lightly compared to the wrath of the weather in previous years.

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These pictures look back particularly bad years including the so-called Great Freeze of 1895, which caused the water at Sandford Weir to completely solidify.

There was also a blustery January in 1990, which saw the roof of a school blow off and a police cordon in Summertown to protect passers-by from falling roof tiles.