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Castle Gateway studies: Brownie Dyke, Castle Mills, and the Foss Basin

The Foss in the area between Castle Mills Bridge and Blue Bridge. Photos and observations. A continuation of recent ‘Castle Gateway studies’.

Photos of work at the Foss barrier, and links to and info on the planning application for the temporary platform to enable necessary improvements.

Signs in windows on Walmgate and Fossgate show that, for some, things aren’t back to normal yet after the flooding of the Foss.

Flood risk and financially viable futures: should the ground floor of this former almshouse by Foss Bridge become a restaurant?

The ‘lodge’ building on the fire station site, Peckitt Street. Flood risk means it is likely to be lost in the redevelopment of the site.

Floodwaters divert me towards a rusty relic and a bit of Clifton’s history, a remnant of an old path by the Ouse.

How the Leeman Road area used to suffer in the floods, before the defences. Perspectives from back then, and now.

Interesting documents cast light on the building of the Foss barrier in the late 1980s.