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 Langley Mill Floods
replied on: 5/25/2007 6:26:26 PM
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It is generally believed that the serious damage done in the Cromford Road and Station Road areas was on account of the piece of waste land which lies back from Cromford Road, leaving a flat surface right to the Erewash basin. It was over this area that the water first advanced towards the shops in cromford road. When the floods began to subside the water flowed away over the same course.


So, this flat piece of land. Are we talking about Parliament Square? Of was it the land further up Cromford Road, where the Regal site was? Or somewhere else?

I know when I lived on Cromford Road in the late 1960's (or early 70's) the Erewash burst its banks, and we had flood water rise as far as the step to the back door of our house (directly opposite Gladstone Street), but fortunately not beyond that.
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