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Pool Meadow/Fairview, Pool Meadow, GLOUCESTER, GL1 2SA

Here on the right bank of the River Severn, on the other side of the river from the city of Gloucester, is this enclave of houses and the Showmans Winter Quarters. Some 19th century homes here and others more modern in these three streets – Alney Terrace, Westend Parade and Westend Terrace. Some of my happiest years were spent here, living in Westend Terrace, from 1985 – 2004 and I was tempted to make a return here when a house came up for sale in Westend Parade but the area has been and possibly still is at high risk of flooding. Passing on the north-east side is the Nottingham – Cardiff railway line and immediately fronting on the south is the A417 Ledbury – Gloucester road which replaced the former main route into Gloucester via Telford's Over Bridge. Time photo taken 4.19 pm BST (British Summer Time).

Very definitely there is no way through here. Time photo taken 4.03 pm BST (British Summer Time).

Another view of Westend Terrace, taken from the southern end of Westend Parade. The building nearest the camera is the former Riverside Hotel, now converted into six flats. Time photo taken 4.15 pm BST (British Summer Time).

A view of Westend Terrace, one of the three streets in this enclave on the west bank of the River Severn, the others being Westend Parade and Alney Terrace. The houses here date from the 19th century with a few more modern ones. Here also is a caravan park - the Showmen's Winter Quarters. Here from the mid 1980s until 2004 was where I lived in a second floor bedsit - some of the happiest years of my life. In one year, during floods, there were people travelling in boats along this cul de sac. The area, being so close to the Severn, is subject to repeated flooding which put me off making a return here though, sadly. Time photo taken 4.14 pm BST (British Summer Time).

A view of the equipment sited here for the Environment Agency's Alney Island Flood Alleviation Scheme. Time photo taken 4.13 pm BST (British Summer Time).

150 285 on the 17:45 service from Cheltenham to Maesteg crossing Pool Meadow Viaduct. This floods fairly regularly in winter when the Severn bursts its banks.

This notice standing beside the A417 at Over Causeway, near the junction of Westend Parade and Westend Terrace, announces the Environment Agency's Alney Island Flood Alleviation Scheme. This area, being on the right bank of the Severn west of Gloucester, has been subject to repeated flooding in the past. I can remember, while living here in a bedsit in Westend Terrace, in one year meals being delivered by people getting about in dinghies to us stranded ones. Time photo taken 4.11 pm BST (British Summer Time).

The police man and two workers build a sandbag wall to try and stop water entering this small lane.

A Class 45 diesel (45149) runs onto the viaduct on its approach to Gloucester with a train from South Wales. In the foreground is a boating lake and on the left, next to the railway line, is a pump house which presumably was built to return water to the East Channel of the River Severn after flooding.