Churchtown Flood Action Group, Part 3: Wendy & William
Wendy and William were flooded twice in 8 months. The third in a series of stories about the impacts of floods in Churchtown, and how the community came together to defend the town.
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Wendy Grisdale and William Robinson - Jim Kippax’s neighbours - invited us into their home to describe their experience of the flooding. They had to move out after the first floods, and again 9 months later when they had just moved back in after refurbishment.
This is the third episode in a series telling the stories of members of the Churchtown flood defence group. Churchtown is a village in Lancashire which was flooded from river overflow twice in the space of 8 months in 2015 and 2016.
Note for listeners:
William mentions 55 dwellings being flooded - the official number of houses flooded above floor level was 58.
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“You think it’s only furniture, it’s only things, but it’s sort of like the core of you, your home.
It was just coming in through the front door, across the hall...and in...the Christmas Tree was floating...it was horrendous.”
“They all got it. The school, the village hall...
In August 2016 we flooded again, and we’d only just got back in.”
“It was a shock the second time, I couldn’t believe it, because I was so happy that everything was a year later back to normal.
Prior to 2015, over the years, it had rained very hard and I’ve looked out the window and it’s been quite high, up to the curb, but it always receded. So I always had this false feeling that it was never going to happen.”
“I came down and the problem is things started to float so you weren’t sure, if you put your foot down, what was there under the water.”
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