Part of Ironbridge was this morning hit by flooding misery – reportedly caused by a bursting brook.
Subscribe to our daily newsletter!Dale End in Coalbrookdale was several feet under water from around 9am this morning with heavy rain understood to have resulted in the nearby brook bursting its banks.Flooding at Dale End this morning. Picture: Robin Fellows-Weir - RFW Photo Video
Katie Cook, manager at the Brooke Evans Ironbridge salon, said they had been warned the brook was about to burst, with some staff and clients able to move their cars out of harm's way. She said:"When we all got here here this morning there were obviously little puddles but it was absolutely fine. "About five to nine someone came in and said 'the brook is going to burst and it is going to flood'."Katie said she had donned her waders to deliver items left by a client in the salon to her car, before then going above-and-beyond by giving another client a piggy back through the water to her car.She said that while it was a nuisance for the salon, with clients unable to attend appointments, the water had not flooded the business, unlike others less fortunate.
She said:"It is alright for us because it has come to the top step but we don't think it is going to actually come into the salon."Aerial pictures from Robin Fellows-Weir, who runs RFW Photo Video, have also shown the extent of the situation.
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