A considerable area of the city centre was flooded by this unprecedented combination of events. The first section of the riverbank to give way was opposite the Tate Gallery at Millbank, where a 75-foot (25 m) section of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed. The gallery was flooded almost to the tops of the doors on the ground floor (a depth of between five and eight feet 1.5 to 2.8 m), which caused damage to many paintings in the gallery's collections, most notably those of J M W Turner. Near Lambeth Bridge the embankment gave way, sending a wall of water through a generally poor and run-down area where nine people drowned (and one died of a heart attack brought on by shock) in their basement apartments, unable to escape from where they were living. Another two people died in Hammersmith, and two more in Fulham. Another 4,000 Londoners were made homeless, as water filled the streets to a depth of four feet (1.2 m).