Across the country householders are still counting the cost of flooding damage from Storm Dennis earlier this month.

Since we shared memories and photos of the floods of Weymouth from a downpour on July 18, 1955, the Looking Back phone has been ringing off the hook.

Here are some more of your memories of that sodden day and its aftermath.

On July 18, 1955, Martinstown saw 11 inches of rain (279mm) in 24 hours - a Guinness World Record, only recently surpassed in Cumbria.

The central point of the deluge was Hardy's Monument, where 12 inches of rain fell and from which water swept down to the River Wey. The river wasn't able to cope with such a huge amount of water and its banks burst.

The Brewers Arms and cottages in Martinstown were marooned. The village found itself cut off until Wednesday, trenches were dug and water was pumped out.

We heard from Looking Back regular, Derek Pride, who has a very vivid memory of the downpour of Monday, July 18, 1955.

He remembers: "I was at school at Hardye's on that day and I remember the sky was as black as anything, I was coming home from school about 3.30pm or 4pm, I would catch the bus home to Lower Bockhampton. It was horrendous. There was all this thunder and lightning which seemed to be right on top of us.

"I was running through Kingston Maurward park from Stinsford and it was frightening, there was a huge flood of water out by Stinsford Church. Someone on a motorcycle got swept away.

"My mother was a a schoolteacher working in Upwey and it was a terrible mess down there."

Michael Bryant of Weymouth, remembers a flooded Park District in Weymouth.

He said: "At the time I was in the Army and we had to help with the Albion Inn which is now a block of flats."

We also had a lovely phone call from Vera Francis, 89, who wished to share her memories of that sodden day in July 1955.

She recalls: "My aunt ran 8 Brunswick Terrace in Weymouth as a B&B. I would go there at weekends to help her on changeover day. I was there when the storm broke and because it was flooded I was stuck there and I couldn't go home. So I spent the night with my aunt at the boarding house.

Mrs Francis is a Portlander and was born in a flat opposite St John's Church in Fortuneswell. Her father, a Portlander, and her mother, from Weymouth met at a fair and they married at the church in Gloucester Street on Boxing Day. Mrs Francis, who turns 90 in November, used to work for Pengilly and Ridge solicitors in Weymouth. Mrs Francis met her husband, who was in the Navy, at a dance at Fleet. Not long after they married, Mr Francis was posted to Malta.

It was a pleasure to hear from Heather Wright, nee Waite, of Portland. Mrs Wright remembers the 1955 deluge well.

She said: "I was a pupil aged 14 at the old Weymouth Grammar School and to get there I had to come on the bus from Preston and walk down Westham Road. That day when I got to Westham Road the water was knee deep. I decided to get the next bus home!"

At home, the water had wreaked havoc, Mrs Wright remembers. "Part of our bedroom ceiling had come down in the cottage because of all the rain."

Nearby Sutton Poyntz was also flooded, she recalls, along with the Park District. The River Jordan at Bowleaze changed its course and a bridge had to be put in there to enable crossing from Overcombe to Bowleaze.

Mrs Wright remembers that day in July 1955 as the only day she missed a day of school except for another in 1956 or 1957, when she missed school to watch a tennis match!

*We'll be sharing more memories of the floods of 1955 in Looking Back next week.