Readers’ Photos of the Floods

Published on: 26 Dec, 2013
Updated on: 26 Dec, 2013

Some very good photos of the floods have been sent in by Dragon readers over the last 48 hours. Photos from Horsley and a report and photos from Burpham resident Jim Allen are included. Here they are…

From Mike Bennett

From Lorimer Burn

From Jules Cranwell in Horsley

From Marcia Sorrell

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From Jim Allen in Burpham

The photos sent are all taken Christmas eve and Christmas Day. The whole area was one vast sheet of water. The nature reserve was impassable and the tow path non-existent.

The river broke its banks at the nature reserve, Slyfield side, on Christmas Eve around midday but only along a short stretch of about 12 feet. By Christmas Day it was in effect 12 feet of bank left and the rest seemed to be a new course of the river.

Clay lane was impassable from about 3pm on Christmas Eve. Traffic coming off the A3 to avoid the south bound traffic jam managed to return onto the north bound A3 because the accident was south of the Clay Lane slip road.

Bowers Lock was over spilling down both sides into Sutton Park and the foot bridge was impassable. Anyway, there was no point in using it because from Bowers Lock to the Sutton Place entrance from the A3 was one sheet of water on Christmas Morning. Burpham court farm was an island!

The River Wey in control, as it was before the flood.

Now it is The Amazon of Guildford Borough.

That’s weird thought there was a weir there!

Walking on Water! Riverside nature reserve bridge board walk.

Somewhere under here is a set of lock gates and a ladder!

Bowers Mill - not all ugly water - but 3 feet above normal level.

Bowers Mill – not all turbulent water – but 3 feet above normal level.

Clay Lane – the first of three ‘fords’ currently present!

Pictures by our resident birdwatcher Malcolm Fincham, that he took while coming home from his post round in Shamley Green on Christmas Eve afternoon. Busy traffic on the A281 at Shalford meant he made a detour heading west to the A3100!