Churchtown Flood Action Group, Part 5: Andy Walmsley

07/08/2024 6 min

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Episode Synopsis

Andy Walmsley told us his story about the night of the flood and how it affected the community and his relationship to rain. He’s a commercial artist and filmmaker living in Churchtown who made a film about the floods as part of the flood action scheme’s campaign to raise money to construct the defence. Watch it below.This is the fifth episode in a series telling the stories of members of the Churchtown flood defence group. Churchtown is a village in Lancashire which was flooded from river overflow twice in the space of 8 months in 2015 and 2016.

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