A force 12 gale combined with a 32ft tide, far higher than expected, created a mammoth 2,000-acre lake in and around Fleetwood.
Only the high ground around The Mount escaped the devastation.
More than 1,200 homes were wrecked and all roads between Lord Street and Harris Street were totally submerged.
Dead pigs, sheep and dogs littered tram tracks, while the vacant ground off Styan Street and Dock Street, near the Wyre Dock crossing, became a huge timber pond, full of pitch-pine logs - the remnants of Alex Keay’s once thriving box-making business.
Blackpool was also pictured on October 31 of the same year, the pier boards were smashed to pieces and there was damage to Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
13. Floods, 1927
Crowds watch the clean up get underway in Blakiston Street, Fleetwood, during the 1927 floods. The large building on the right is St Margaret's Church, now an apartment building | National World
14. Floods, 1927
The Strawberry Gardens Hotel in Poulton Road Fleetwood still shows a mark at the front door where the flood water reached in 1927 | National World
15. Flood, 1927
The roadway on the New Promenade in front of the Big Dipper at South Shore was ripped up and underminded by the force of the water | National World
16. Flood, 1927
This picture underlines the heartbreak which the 1927 floods caused in Fleetwood as householders pile their sodden belongings on the pavement | National World
17. Floods, 1927
The two decker Tram which was blown over on North Shore. The driver and conductor, the only persons in the car, escaped uninjured | National World