This is a view looking along our lane. Notice how far below the road that the river is today. Now look at all the rubbish along the wire fence and see how it lines up with the bottom of the hedge on the lane. That is the height that the water reached!
The river has dropped so much that you can't even see it on this shot.
Just out of interest this is a postcard of the same view in about 1901.
At the end of the lane is the mill written about by Robert Louis Stevenson. Not sure what he would make of the walk now!
The mill was finally demolished about 50 years ago and now is transformed into the garden shown earlier in the video of the river.
2 comments:
It would help so much if more of the same wasn't on it's way. Down here we've been lucky, high winds but not so much water. The little stream beside our house rose about 4 foot, but that's well within the comfort zone. Thinking of you,
Sally
Thanks Sally. Yes I think we are due another 4 inches of rain tomorrow but thankfully it should just slow drainage down rather than increase floods.
4 feet sounds like such a manageable amount from here! It must have come up nearly 20 feet I think along the lane. Scary!!!
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