Events & Charactors

Charactors of MILLHOUSE

Beatrice Earl

These 2 photographs feature long term village resident Miss Beatrice Earl who was born in MILLHOUSE, now in her late 80s, served in the Royal Air Force during her youth.

She then lived and worked in Windermere, then Threlkeld before returning to MILLHOUSE to care for her elderly mother in the 1960's.

Because of her popularity and unrivaled dedication to the people of MILLHOUSE and local area, she was assigned to officially carry out the tape cutting opening of our new village Hall, (together with Hall chairman Tommy Little)

in 1999.

Armed forces day, Friday 3rd July 2015

The Local armed forces Coffee morning event was arranged in MILLHOUSE village Hall by Philippa Groves, Northern Fells Group village agent for Castle Sowerby and Mungrisdale.

MORE than 50 people attended the Armed Forces Day coffee morning at MILLHOUSE village hall, on Saturday 4th July 2015.

The hall was decorated with an eye-catching and colourful display of flags, all associated with the forces, by courtesy of local vexillologist David Kerry. Red tablecloths and Union Jack napkins all added to the ambience.

A plentiful supply of tea and coffee and tasty bacon and sausage butties went down very well, served by a band of helpers including Jay Maclean, Rhona King, Ilona Ferrouk and Diane Barraclough. Home-baked bread rolls were made by Gwynne Hunt and home-made cakes by Catherine Eastwood, Jo Hardy and Helen Sturges.

In June 2012, MILLHOUSE celebrated the Queens Jubilee.

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For the sake of the inhabitant's future welfare and the crucial sustainability of property value/demand, this website has gone to great lengths to demonstrate in detail how the village of MILLHOUSE has been inadvertently reintroduced to regular flooding from the river Caldew, undoubtedly caused by rapid multiplying stacking behind the low capacity bridge, inflamed by inadvertent significant man made changes on the west bank in 2003.

This website uniquely demonstrates via an intricate photo Survey, the recently reintroduced flooding phenomenon to MILLHOUSE :

https://www.millhouse-hesketnewmarket.com/Desmond/Survey

The quite unique photo survey was carried out soon after the storm Desmond flooding event, with the full intentions of it being a vital aid to provide realistic information to the Environment Agency, to enable a necessary fast-trac remedial plan to be promptly put in to action.

To date, NO such (credible) plan has been instigated.

The reintroduced flooding routine is completely reversible, with a very logical common sense credible rectification to the inadvertent man made changes.

The reintroduced flooding routine commenced in 2005, after a break of more than 40 years. MILLHOUSE enjoyed a blissful Holiday from river orientated flooding, onwards from the completion of the long awaited construction of the village flood defense bank in the 1960's. It was during this period of 40 years when most of the recent flood victim residents of MILLHOUSE bought their homes at a then sustainable market value. The January 2005 flood event was a rude awakening, when unprecedented stacking was experienced behind the 110 year old single arch low capacity bridge, (Funnel/Dam).

3 more repetition flooding events have since occurred, undoubtably due to the incapability of the low capacity bridge, now deprived of its overflow bypass by the 2003 man made changes:

November 2009,

June 2012,

and storm Desmond December 2015.

Until the recommended logical credible remedy is carried out to rectify the low capacity bridge, (now deprived of it's original overflow path) the vulnerable properties of MILLHOUSE have an unsustainable flood resilience.

The realistic facts are that the vulnerable properties of MILLHOUSE will be flooded once again during the crescendo of the next extreme storm if no logical action is taken to rectify the serious problem of the low capacity bridge.

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We do welcome you to offer your views about the 4 reintroduced flooding events within the space of a decade which MILLHOUSE has endured since 2005.

(a) Is this phenomenon of 4 repetitive flooding events, and the 2003 blockage of the bridge overflow path just coincidence?

(b) Can global warming be to blame for the 4 flooding events?

(d) Is the capacity of the MILLHOUSE single arch bridge realistically

large enough for the river Caldew in full spate during an extreme storm?

(e) Has the repetitive flooding phenomenon increased or decreased the value and demand of properties in MILLHOUSE and the associated community post code?

(f) Are you willing to offer support towards a united front to push for a logical common sense remedy to get the repetitive flooding phenomenon rectified permanently?

(g) Are you willing to just sit back & take your chances that it may not happen again?

(h) Would you like the property values/demand in MILLHOUSE to become more sustainable?