On 07/03/07, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Better to keep the buildings out of the flood plain than the water, > methinks.
I had first hand experience of this when I lived opposite the park in Ladywell in Lewisham many years ago. The park was a park because it was the 'flood plain' for the Ravensbourne, a sort of thin trickle which passes for a river in these parts. Oh, how we mocked! Until one year we woke with our cellar slopping with water and the park now a lake, lapping at the very doors of Lewisham Hospital. I have had a greater respect for the use of flood plains since. And a greater understanding of why they never built on Ladywell Fields. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
