"Steve Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had first hand experience of this when I lived opposite the park in >Ladywell in Lewisham many years ago. The park was a park because it was the >'flood plain' for the Ravensbourne, a sort of thin trickle which passes for >a river in these parts. Oh, how we mocked! Until one year we woke with our >cellar slopping with water and the park now a lake, lapping at the very >doors of Lewisham Hospital. I have had a greater respect for the use of >flood plains since. And a greater understanding of why they never built on >Ladywell Fields. > >Steve
I understand there have been some works of late to turn parts of the Ravensbourne back into a river (from a concrete ditch). A good thing. This is sort of on topic, as the bottom bit of the Ravensbourne before it joins the Thames is the (navigable at high tide) Deptford Creek. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
