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The ings do their thing: Clifton and Rawcliffe

Winter trees, flood water, late afternoon sun

A local walk, along a flood bank. The ings are doing their thing, as the city does its best to deal with another deluge.

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A walk by the Ouse, and a rusty relic

Rusty iron railing, bent, in ivy, by track

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

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A bandstand and squirrels, Museum Gardens, 1978

'Floods remove summer bandstand' — Yorkshire Evening Press, 30 Dec 1978

I can’t leave the 1970s newspaper without mentioning a couple of other things reported in that edition of the Yorkshire Evening Press of 30 December 1978.

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Leeman Road defences

Yorkshire Evening Press, 30 Dec 1978: SIEGE OF YORK reports on severe floods

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

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Our new defence: the Foss barrier, back then

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

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Clifton’s Burdyke bubbling up: York floods, 2015

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The Burdyke bubbling up, on Clifton Green and Water Lane, in Clifton, York, during the floods of December 2015.

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York floods: strategies, reports, etc

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I’ve been reading a lot of interesting documents about floods in York, in the past, and strategies for coping in the future. I thought I’d share the links here.

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Funding, and a flood of questions

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Perhaps today’s announcement of funding is an admission that our flood-defending infrastructure has got a bit old and knackered and needs some maintenance.

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