Cornholme School

Flood 1982

The 1982 flood particularly devastated the Cornholme valley, where a block culvert was unable to cope with flash flooding and ripped up part of the main Burnley road on what had begun as a sunny August day.

A view from outside The Glen

An example of the devastation

A bus waits  to pass

These two photos show the valley from above

Jill Robinson

'I was looking at the photos of the flood in 1982, I remember it well. The main road was so deep in water that it was running onto the bus. I was only eight at the time and had just moved here in the March of that year. I had been on a walk along the canal near Walsden with my sister and dad when the rain started. One of my friends' at the time lived at the corner shop and while i was helping to clean out the back i was bitten by a water rat as it looked liked a piece of wood floating on top.Needless to say i panicked and my mum doused my hand with TCP, then took me to the doctors lol. I also remember one of my friends houses' (Steven Standring) collapsing into the road, (there is a picture of it on the website, it was just before the green metal railway bridge).'

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Montage

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 The Source of all the flooding