Flooding in Northumberland

These days heavy rainfall and flooding are being talked about as if it is unusual. Well there might have been a few years of peace and quiet but its nothing new.

For the border floods of 1948 see

here

and

here

and for those of us who wonder at the impact of gravel extraction on the flood plains see here.

One final comment from a local who has lived many years in Glendale....she mentioned that historically you could use river bed stones ...but with this no longer being the case the beds were shallower than they should be.

Just a relatively small price to pay for living in beautiful Northumberland.