According to a report in the Hull Packet of July 12 1845: "During the heavy thunderstorm last week a shower of frogs fell from one of the supercharged clouds of the Humber. Several dropped on the deck of vessels navigating the river and a portion of the coasts near Kingholme Lights was, for a time, covered by myriads of the strange arrivals."The Sheffield Independent recorded "hundreds of thousands of small frogs," following a heavy thunderstorm in August 1850. The road between Parkgate and Marboro'' was covered for at least 3/4 mile with what turned out to be tadpoles.
The Times, June 17 1939 reported the following: "Trowbridge [Wilts] has been visited by a shower of frogs which apparently fell for a few seconds within a restricted space. Mr E Ettlee, superintendent of the Municipal Swimming Pool, said that at about 4.40 pm in the afternoon, a heavy shower of rain came on and he ran for shelter. As he was running, he heard sounds as if lumps of mud were falling behind him. 'I turned,' he said 'and was amazed to see hundreds of tiny frogs falling on the concrete paths surrounding the pool. It was all over in a few seconds but there must have been thousands of these tiny frogs, each about the size of the top of one's fingernail. I swept them up and shovelled them into a bucket.'