Video transcript: climate change & lifestyle – Jill
Flooding in Bewdley

Flooding in Bewdley was really bad when I came 40 years ago.  I moved into a house that actually stands in the flood plane, which you might think was a foolish thing to do, but it was evident that the people we bought the house off managed flooding OK.  We expected to be flooded every two or three years, because it was one of the lowest houses in Bewdley, but had other advantages which made us want it.

In fact we had, following the time that we bought the house, we had 20 dry years when the river here, anyway, didn’t flood.  When these houses alongside Severnside North were being flooded at very regular intervals, they tended to be occupied by the poorest in society.