Month: August 2019
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Whaley Bridge 147 years of floods!
Interesting to find a couple of old reports on ‘freak weather’ in Whaley Bridge 147 years ago. Whaley Bridge is mentioned twice in the flood chronologies for events in June 1872 and July 1881: On 19th [June 1872] the Goyt was 12 to 14 feet above its normal level. At Whaley Bridge houses near the…