Article 6FSW1 ‘We can’t live in this’: the tightknit Chesterfield street devastated by flooding

‘We can’t live in this’: the tightknit Chesterfield street devastated by flooding

by
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent
from on (#6FSW1)

Neighbours speak of heartbreak from row of terraces where Maureen Gilbert, 83, was found dead after Storm Babet

Almost every square inch of the houses along Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield is covered in a thick layer of wet brown mud.

Inside the homes, brown lines across the walls show that water levels reached a height of 1.5 metres (5ft).

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