The city was devastated by hurricane-strength winds that killed four people in Sheffield and Barnsley and injured 250, demolished 250 homes and caused damage to thousands more. Sheffield was declared a National Disaster Zone and a fund was set up to help people get back on their feet.
5. Left homeless
Families sitting in the ruins of their homes, ripped apart by the Sheffield hurricane of February 16, 1962. Hundreds of Sheffielders were left homeless Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
6. Floodlight wreckage
The shattered wreckage of one of the Sheffield United floodlight pylons at their Bramall Lane ground, caused by the Sheffield hurricane of February 16, 1962 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
7. Safely sleeping
Josephine Ellar looks over her two sleeping children, Anthony, aged two, and John, aged one, at the Hurlfield Secondary Boys School, Sheffield, which was turned into an emergency centre, after she had evacuated her home in Errington Avenue, Arbourthorne which was damaged by the hurricane that hit Sheffield on February 26, 2022 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
8. Shelter from storm
David and William Trigg, safe in a school reception centre after the hurricane that hit Sheffield on February 26, 1962 Photo: ©Sheffield Newspapers Ltd