Ilkeston - Dudley & Eunice
w/e 20 February 2022
All of this week's pictures were taken with a Kodak DX6490
Some parts of the UK have been
devastated this week as two storms Dudley and Eunice swept across
the country. By and large Ilkeston's doesn't seem to have fared
too badly although two plastic panels have been blown out of
our greenhouse (not for the first time) and we currently have
a "sunroof"!
As we walked along South Street into the town centre on Thursday
in the tail end of Dudley, it was a bit blowy but it looked as
though we were set for a fine day.
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Most of the market traders though had taken heed of the weather
warnings as had a lot of the population and the Market Place
was sparsely populated.
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Overnight winds had brought down some small branches and twigs
and they lay in front of the Library.
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Flags on the Town Hall were only fluttering gently - but they
were on the sheltered side.
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In comparison a flag on top of the former Co-Op building across
Wharncliffe Road from the Town Hall, which has been hanging by
a thread for some time now, was almost horizontal in the stiff
breeze.
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More flags on the corner of East Street and Bath Street were
also catching the breeze, fluttering wildly and wrapping themselves
around their respective flag poles.
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On Bath Street itself, I don't know where it had come from but
litter had been spread across the road by the wind.
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Thursday is refuse collection day in the town centre and several
bins left out for the collectors had been blown over.
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Later on Saturday in the aftermath of Eunice, we spotted one
panel in a long fence had been dislodged but if this is all that's
been sustained, we've actually got off lightly.
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Also on Saturday we noticed more detritus on Cantelupe Road but
were heartened by the fact that all the trees were still standing
and also by the sight of the season's first crocuses on 'Illy
'Oleys.
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