Showing posts with label Flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flooding. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1598

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"The world's solar power is crossing a threshold. A decade ago, it barely registered on a global scale, providing just 1 per cent o...
Monday, August 24, 2026

The Joy of Six 1566

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"Our promise should be: We don’t want power so we can run your life. We want power in order to give it back to you."  Roz Savage ...
Monday, July 27, 2026

The Fenland floods of 1947

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A film about farming and the harsh winter of 1946/7. In particular, about the flooding that hit the Fens when the snow finally thawed and th...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Searching for Frankie Howerd in York

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I've made it back from York. Our spring conferences always seem to involve too much travel and not enough conference, so I rarely attend...
Monday, November 24, 2025

The Joy of Six 1440

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"The 'peace deal' that America is now attempting to force on Ukraine, is not like Neville Chamberlain’s betrayal of Czechoslova...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

The Joy of Six 1422

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"The British physicist has dedicated herself to increasing diversity and accessibility within the STEM community, with a special emphas...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Duke of Rutland is urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor to the people of Sheffield

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The campaign group Reclaim Our Moors wants the Duke of Rutland to to sell Moscar Moor near Sheffield for £1 because they think it is in such...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The old course of the River Jordan through Little Bowden

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The flooding of the River Jordan earlier this week has had me looking at old Ordnance Survey maps. As I suspected, Rectory Lane has this lo...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Jordan's river is deep and wide, Hallelujah!

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Little Bowden's River Jordan burst its banks last night. At one time it flowed past the village church and around the green, so perhaps ...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Heavy flooding at Wellingborough last week

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PurpleVision - follow him on YouTube for East Midland disused railway goodness - went to Wellingborough last week to look at the overflowin...
Friday, April 26, 2024

The 1931 floods and the history of Winchelsea Beach

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This is an interesting little video. Winchelsea Beach, where we had a family caravan holiday when I was seven, is a small resort that has de...
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Friday, April 12, 2024

Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river

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By some distance, the Guardian wins our Headline of the Day Award. Well done everybody in showbiz North London.
Sunday, February 18, 2024

The River Jordan in spate this afternoon

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The Jordan is Market Harborough's second river. It rises near Desborough, flows through Braybrooke and Little Bowden, and joins the Well...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Plan drawn up for the Stiperstones to become a 'super' National Nature Reserve

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Natural England has drawn up a proposal to expand the existing Stiperstones National Nature Reserve in Shropshire by up to 5,000 hectares  -...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Flooding in Market Harborough - in 1958

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We had floods in Market Harborough earlier this week but, judging by this newsreel, they were nothing to what the town experienced in the su...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020

The Derwent Valley in snow and flood

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From the Britain on Film site: From the Big Freeze of 1963 to gales, landslides and, most memorably, the major flooding of December 19...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Six of the Best 912

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"Brexit has given nationalists the confidence to cast suspicions upon a wide array of independent public bodies, from universities to...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Market Harborough floods in 1958

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Embed from Getty Images This photograph of the Square under water in 1959 has turned up on GettyImages. I particularly like the road sig...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

The Fenland floods of 1947

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Embed from Getty Images The weather of 1947 threatened food supply while the nation still recovered from war. From the snow bound uplands ...
Monday, January 04, 2016

Six of the Best 563

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The Liberal Democrats should cut their spending by moving their headquarters out of London, argues Simon McGrath . "Pickering, Nort...