Note the House Martins darting through the air. (If you can't make the birds out, see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOXJ0b1ureU). The House Martins couldn't get to their nests underneath Oldgate Bridge.
View from the bottom of our garden!
View from the bottom of our garden
Good job that sign was there!
Morpeth Leisure centre on right. Footbridge ahead is just underwater.
The water just got up to the middle of that footbridge beyond the house.
View from our upstairs window. In the distance is the footbridge as seen in the previous photo.
View from our upstairs window
View from our upstairs window. Note helicopter above the trees.
Bottom of our garden. Semi-submerged compost bin. Can't complain about that!
View from our upstairs window.
Morpeth swimming pool
Note the debris at the top of the handrail on the footbridge.
The Joiners Arms pub cellar
Note the water line on the buildings behind the wall. You can see a car floating past here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSuZzRK0NBo
Joiners Arms pub
Morpeth first school was okay.
Most of the houses down here were flooded. The water came over the top of the wall, but was already seeping through the wall before then.
Locals told us that at its highest the water was up to the top of the ridge of the greenhouse.
The puddle top left is the location of the next photo...
Difficult to make out, but there were crayfish swimming in these puddles!
Note the water mark on St. George's Church
Morpeth library
Morpeth library - note the broken windows and how the wall has been knocked in.
Bottom of our garden. Only the bottom flower bed was flooded. That's 12 feet above normal river level though!
Note the water mark on the walls
Newminster and Chantry schools were okay. This is as far as the water got up the path to the schools. The floodwater made an attractive deposit of grass cuttings!
View looking downstream from Oldgate bridge. 8/9/2008
