This week's prompt photograph from Sepia Saturday dates from 1912 and features a group of bsrefooted children. paddling in a flooded street in Beverly, Yorkshire.
Until
recently, I lived in Hawick, the largest town in the Scottish Borders, situated in Teviotdale where two rivers meet - the River Teviot and the Slitrig Water. Or as one of the many well known local songs says poetically :
Where Slitrig dances down the dell
To join the Teviot Water
There dwells auld Hawick's honest men
And Hawick's bright eyed daughters.
In the 1970's the River Teviot flooded and my husband, a teacher, took
these photographs around the High School, which to the delight of many
children was closed for a few days.
At least they have footwear!
The River Teviot, rising high, can be seen behind the railings.
The science labs in the background
| Looking across the to the school sports hall. |
What struck me now about these previous two photographs is how, forty years on, the landscape has changed. The mill chimney and mill buildings have since been demolished - a sign of how Hawick's once proud textile industry has diminished.
 This was the scene in in Wilton Lodge Park |
In calmer waters.
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The power of water has been brought home to me with our recent flooding...lots of damage. And I remember Houston last year! But kids will be kids, and playing in water comes naturally. Thanks for sharing the before-after photo especially!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great match for the theme! Not where I live, but elsewhere in Virginia there is quite a bit of flooding going on right now causing mud slides and road closures.
ReplyDeleteYou did match the theme well! I'm glad to live up on a hill where we are not likely to flood. Several areas in the US being hit by flood waters this weekend.
ReplyDeleteA lot of flooding here! But the pix your husband took of the high school kids enjoying a watery break from school were not only fun, but fit the bill perfectly! :)
ReplyDeleteA perfect match! Floods used to be devastating in olden times but I don't think the aftereffects were as difficult to deal with as today's pollution and rebuilding.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your comments. Here in the UK floods seem to have increasingly a deveststing effect on property and people’s lives, no matter the time of year. Fortunately in Hawick we lived on the last road on the hillside, so,flooding was not a risk we faced.
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