Littleborough floods 26 12 15

The weather forecast indicated heavy rain overnight. The North west of England - Lancashire and West Yorkshire was on a flood alert.

[@onyourbiketrev]

Great informative video. Thank you from someone who grew up in Shore & Littleborough. Hope everyone is safe.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks for commenting Heather

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

My aim was to walk from one of the river Roch sources and follow it down to Littleborough. I had no idea at the time that the village was flooded to such an extent. This was an extreme weather event on a major scale. Shortly after I visited Hebden Bridge and couldn not believe the utter devastation, it was terrible. I also visited Whalley where the river Ribble flooded.It was emotional and all communities were out working together on the clean up.

[@hurdigurdiman]

Well done mate. I grew up in Bacup (visit annually) but living in the States now for last 24 years..

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks for watching Mike, That's a local name to Bacup I knew a Steve G..

[@kenward8126]

Thanks for the "Info and news" footage. Stay safe. I' feel very lucky living at 500+ feet ASL in Bolton.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks Ken

[@safetyladysilver8988]

Great video - different to most of the time, showing that the flooding was quite a natural consequence of lots (and lots) of rain. Brave of you to be out there. Although I know the area (have house in Calderbrook) and have cycled & walked around Pennine bridleway, I can't locate any of the reference points or names you give - the overflowing dam is only a tiny one, compared to many, and these aren't named on my OS 1:250000 map. Assume you are on the route over to Watergrave. Any grid refs (now you are in the dry!)?

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I haven't got any grid references to hand to but thanks for the comments, I wanted to follow the feeder streams down from their sources to the main river today. It was interesting to say the least.

[@Cm10Oasis]

Anyone have any info on if the top of calderbrook, now shopwood way was affected or ever has been from flooding?

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

They put a culvert in place near the house on the corner. The footpath that leads down towards the pylons can get a bit washed out in heavy rain events but they have spent millions in Littleborough to manage 100 year flood events.

[@pdtech4524]

Interesting video, it's clear to see the current water courses can't handle the sheer volume of water coming off the hills in a continued period of rainfall it seems to be occurring on an annual basis now. Surely the council and water board could come together and work out a solution? Bigger drains, pumps, flood barriers, new deeper and wider water courses, storm drains etc etc Obviously they'll say there isn't the funding and the cost will be too high? So what do we pay council tax and water rates for? 😮😯🤔🤨🙁😎👍

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Some good points there PD. I have spoken to an environmental officer who has funds available for flood defences in this area following my video diaries when things take a turn for the worst. I guess my videos put me in the location at key moments buddy for the experts to make some sense of what is going on when these big rain events actually happen.

[@pdtech4524]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures Nice one! Keep pushing them and documenting your progress. I'm sure if they can see the problem areas up in the hills then something can be done to prevent flooding further downstream?😎👍

[@jimsstringer6436]

Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Cheers Jim

[@tonythesuperperson]

This was a really informative video, thank you

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Cheers Tony

[@timlazenby5]

Amazing to see the water coming out of the wells..... must be a huge underground river system up there!!

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

It's part of an underground water channel to feed Watergrove Reservoir

[@motortraction]

Was that the little reservoir at Clough/Stony Brook?

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Yes it's not too far from Clough.

[@motortraction]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures thought so, many thanks!

[@kollusion1]

I'm glad this video's still up. Shocking day, never see weather like that before.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

It was a bad for all the local residents but I believe the agencies have quite a substantial budget to target this area and hopefully keep people's property safe.

[@LukeBlazejewski]

Hi Daz, we're making a small film about the recent floods for a charity in Salford - The Broughton Trust. Could we possibly use a bit of this footage? We'll of course give you a credit in the film. Thanks, Luke.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Sure thing Luke,

[@simonfirth2253]

Can you please tell me the name of the dam which had water flowing over the top of it? It sounded like you said White Ling Owls?!

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

+Simon Firth That is correct.The locals call it that but on the map it is not named.

[@motortraction]

Maybe Clough?

[@MrEvsy]

I flew over yesterday on my glider and the water had gone just a few flooded fields

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Wow ! I bet that was interesting to see from the air MREvsy

[@0RICKT0]

Thank for sharing

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks for commenting and watching

[@The6t8]

Can't remember ever seeing that much water flowing down from the tops, certainly never seen it coming up out of those capped shafts before, wouldn't like to be living below that damn

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

It was a pretty one to say the least on this day Adrian. Hopefully the engineers will sort things out

[@megalithix]

Brilliant to see! :) The Cailleach is coming....

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks for watching

[@SouthpawDavey]

Unreal I saw what happened in York. Been really dry here.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

They have spent millions here since !

[@haycockjeff]

Good vid.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Cheers

[@4133EWvianen]

Too few waterways!!!

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

They have been working hard to stop all of this

[@mohmadrafikhussen2115]

Good

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks

[@ColinBurnside]

Terrible

[@reecebatt6825]

this is where i live peoples houses were destroyed

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

It is never a good thing when the homes get flooded like this