tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post4906715253853625927..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Lost rivers of London to be reclaimedJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-60039130356549958932009-01-09T09:48:00.000+00:002009-01-09T09:48:00.000+00:00See:http://qwag.org.uk/the website of the excellen...See:<BR/><BR/>http://qwag.org.uk/<BR/><BR/>the website of the excellent Quaggy Waterways Action Group.<BR/><BR/>When I first moved to Lewisham, I lived in a house where the back garden ended in the Quaggy (Manor Park section). The failure of channelisation was shown when one rainy day the Quaggy decided to flood the whole street (fortunately, we lived on the first floor).<BR/><BR/>In the next place I lived in Lewisham I found I was next to another bit of the Quaggy (Chinbrook section), crossing the bridge over the river Quaggy every day. Usually it's just a trickle, but a bit of sustained rain can make it quite substantial. <BR/><BR/>While I'm not quite so close to it now, it's still my local river in Eltham. Given that it flows through the one LibDem ward in LB Greenwich, and three LibDem wards in LB Lewisham, it's a good LibDem river in its lower parts, though I'm afraid throughly Tory in the upper reaches (even the bit which re-enters LB Lewisham)Matthew Huntbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255872047710686115noreply@blogger.com