The Hurt Arms on the A6 at Ambergate as pictured in the Mail yesterday. Mrs H has a table booked for lunch today but it is no surprise that they appear to be closed.
Where I grew up we'd get a flood in many years when an unusually high Spring tide had a sou'wester behind it. It was fascinating to see a street flooded but all the houses being just above the floodline. The commercial area at the harbour flooded but the warehouses were just fine - it was their loading bays that filled with water, the storage floors stayed dry.
Clever chaps the Victorians.
P.S. Am I alone in finding that Victorian warehouses are often rather beautiful? The best collection I've seen was in Timaru on South Island NZ. Whether they've survived the earthquakes since we left I don't know.
I am convinced that much of the recent flooding is a consequence of bad water management, intentional or incompetent. A friend of mine lives close to the Somerset levels, when they flooded some years ago he blamed the then Environment secretary in the Coagulation. She, a libdem, stopped all clearing of drainage ditches. A Lincolnshire farmer demonstrated on video the inadequate banking on dykes, causing him to lose millions in crops. Of course I may be wrong and it's all to do with warble gloaming.
dearieme - yes those Victorians were clever chaps. When the Hurt Arms was built in 1874, I bet it wasn't in much danger of regular flooding.
I find Victorian warehouses impressive but grim, although I haven't seen many. I often find other Victorian buildings attractive such as schools, railway stations and houses.
Andy - some of the flood management may be indirectly intentional in that water has to go somewhere and usually those places are by default the least costly areas in terms of habitation and businesses.
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Where I grew up we'd get a flood in many years when an unusually high Spring tide had a sou'wester behind it. It was fascinating to see a street flooded but all the houses being just above the floodline. The commercial area at the harbour flooded but the warehouses were just fine - it was their loading bays that filled with water, the storage floors stayed dry.
Clever chaps the Victorians.
P.S. Am I alone in finding that Victorian warehouses are often rather beautiful? The best collection I've seen was in Timaru on South Island NZ. Whether they've survived the earthquakes since we left I don't know.
Sorry to hear about your cancelled lunch, Mr H.
I am convinced that much of the recent flooding is a consequence of bad water management, intentional or incompetent. A friend of mine lives close to the Somerset levels, when they flooded some years ago he blamed the then Environment secretary in the Coagulation. She, a libdem, stopped all clearing of drainage ditches. A Lincolnshire farmer demonstrated on video the inadequate banking on dykes, causing him to lose millions in crops. Of course I may be wrong and it's all to do with warble gloaming.
dearieme - yes those Victorians were clever chaps. When the Hurt Arms was built in 1874, I bet it wasn't in much danger of regular flooding.
I find Victorian warehouses impressive but grim, although I haven't seen many. I often find other Victorian buildings attractive such as schools, railway stations and houses.
Andy - some of the flood management may be indirectly intentional in that water has to go somewhere and usually those places are by default the least costly areas in terms of habitation and businesses.
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