DROWNED VILLAGE RISES
COVERED BY DAM WATERS A curious effect of the dry summer is reported from the Peak of Derbyshire, in England. There are situated the vast works of the Derwent Valley Water Board, which supply Sheffield. Nottingham, Derby and Leicester with the great bulk of the water those centres consume. When one of the reservoirs, the Derwent, was opened just before the war the little village of Birchiuiee was inundated, never again, it was thought, to appear to view. The rainfall in the Peak has. however, been far below the normal this year, and Bircliinlee has again risen above the surface, a mere spectre, it is true, of its former self, but the cottage walls have been visible and an old stone bridge, while the long wall of the dam has stood at least 30ft. above the level of what little water remained. Hitherto the depth of water had never been less than 10ft., and more often it was 30ft. The roofs of the cottages had disappeared, but the pillars and buttresses of the bridge had suffered little or no damage.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 9
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183DROWNED VILLAGE RISES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 9
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