Morpeth

Two weeks ago we went into Morpeth on the Sunday afternoon and walked around one of the areas that had been hit by the floods just one week before. It was heartbreaking to see the streets lined with skips full of people’s possessions. Carpets, furniture, white goods, and the heartbreaking children’s toys, soggy wet teddy bears probably once cherished now stinking and unlovable.

Nearly every house had an industrial sized dryer/dehumidifier chugging away next to it, the long white sterile drying pipes coming out through part opened windows. All of the houses were empty. There were whole rows of deserted dead streets and full skips, and on a warm Sunday afternoon the only people around were ourselves and one other couple who were also devastation tourists.

I found some photographs on a local photographers website that shows how high the water was the rest of the pictures are at www.ljbell.com

 

Comments

[Rebecca]

...and yesterday we returned to a unusually quiet Morpeth and had a lovely walk along the river with hot donuts and sunshine, its still in recovery but slowly moving forwards. I miss Smailes not being open.

[grakkk]

blimey! That river was high!

[Nic]

Come back again to Morpeth! We're getting things going again. The Wednesday market is up and running, the farmers market is on first Saturday of month (1st Nov, 6th Dec), the Mistletoe Fair & Christmas Lights is Sat 22nd Nov - and we're setting the Chantry craft centre up in the Town Hall while the Chantry is restored.

[Les]

Please remove the photos of Morpeth that you have taken from http://www.ljbell.com/

These photos are subject to copyright as clearly stated on our site and not available for use on blogs.

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