A clean-up of flood damage was continuing today across the Bradford district.

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service took a thousand flood-related calls between 9am and midnight on Monday, including 20 calls where rescue operations were required.

Cellars of homes in Bracken Street, Keighley, were flooded to a depth of four feet and had to be pumped out by firefighters.

One resident, Simon Parkinson, said: "The whole street has been flooded.

"Fire crews came round on Monday but as soon as they left it started to fill up again and reached about two feet deep.

"There's a culvert that is broken on the street which is where all the water is coming through - it's just a big hole in the road which is about the size of a Ford Fiesta."

Mr Parkinson said the back-to-back houses in Bracken Street and Cedar Street have been repeatedly flooded.

He said: "I believe it's the responsibility of Yorkshire Water - its workers came round about two weeks ago to try to sort it out but now this has happened.

"We are living in fear all the time, watching the water creep up the stairs of our cellar."

The Met Office said 54mm of rain fell in Bingley on Monday - where the average day in June sees about 2mm.

Yorkshire Water said it had deployed teams throughout the county in the worst affected areas.

A spokesman said it was working with the Environment Agency and Bradford Council to help the people who had been affected by the exceptional rainfall.

The spokesman said: "Yorkshire has been experiencing huge volumes of rainfall over a prolonged period and Yorkshire Water's priority at the moment is to deal with the most significant issues caused by this rainfall.

"The levels experienced have been exceptional and come on the back of heavy rainfall experienced last week.

"We are working as hard as possible to respond to customers' needs and ensure our systems continue to operate as they should."

In Baildon, 16-year-old Emily Mortimer was forced to climb out of a ground floor window to prevent her flooded house being further damaged.

Her father, Jason Mortimer said: "She phoned my mum because we were away and she was looking after the house over the weekend.

"She only had a key to the patio at the back, which was already submerged in the water."

A back street between Roydstone Terrace and Silverhill Road, in Thornbury was yesterday still submerged in water.

Sajid Hussain, 30, of Roydstone Terrace, said: "The drains are always blocked.

"The water is just not going anywhere - it's still ankle deep."

Meanwhile, firefighters at Odsal and Idle were called to Cooper Lane, Buttershaw, Bradford, where approximately six houses had flooded basements.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said Monday was possibly "the busiest 24 hours in living memory", dealing with flooding in more than 400 premises.

Train services were also disrupted, with services between Leeds and Shipley and Ilkley cancelled.

Northern Rail was still running a half-hourly shuttle service on the Airedale line between Bradford Forster Square, Shipley, Keighley and Skipton and on the Wharfedale Line between Forster Square and Ilkley.

Passengers travelling from Bradford to Leeds were advised to travel from Forster Square where regular bus services were in use.

A reservoir in Low Moor, Bradford, which needs emergency safety work, escaped damage from the torrential rain.

The Council has allocated £100,000 to make essential safety alterations to Park Dam, a grade A reservoir, to ensure the dam will remain stable in future years.

The Council said no schools were affected by the floods and no major trees toppled, although parks and landscapes have had to deal with six incidents of "tree debris".