Churchtown Flood Action Group, Part 4: David & Barbara
David and Barbara Horne have given up their business after the floods. The fourth in a series of stories about the impacts of floods in Churchtown and how the community came together.
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Roger Weatherell introduced us to David and Barbara Horne, residents of Churchtown and victims of the 2015 and 2016 floods. The floods destroyed £70,000 worth of David’s joinery workshop equipment and took his business from him. Now Barbara is anxious every time it rains. The flood defenses that have been built in Churchtown actually won’t protect the Horne’s home from the river the way it will much of the town, so they are still in a vulnerable position. David also opened up to us about his poor physical health, which is related to working in damp conditions for years.
This is the fourth 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.
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“I’m anxious the whole time it rains. Even just a bit of rain, I’m anxious.”
“In the building that was the workshop, it was four foot deep in there, and there was about £70,000 worth of woodworking machinery that was no longer any good. So I lost that…
We were doing really well until the floods came along and then old age and poverty struck. And that’s when my hands have gone…and we’ve got [gangrene], where your toes fall off.”
“The septic tank burst, and that all came in the house. The kitchen was literally brown all on the floor and my son was trying to mop it up for us...all the toilet paper was trailing through the house.
You lose things that maybe to other people are not valuable, but I lost a desk that my mother had bought when she died.”
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