General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Anthony

Where Asda is now, is where years ago there was a builders merchants on Soho Street and that used to flood and if you remember the road which ran at the side of Asda where the rifle club was located, there was a dip in the road and that always used to flood there, I remember going canooing there once and the shop floor at Asda was built to be above the level of the Dougie and that is why the present and former Asda stores have never flooded and during the 1970's 80's and 90's there was never a cataclysmic flood at Newtown, because there was never during those times a weather event to cause it and some work was done in the early 1970's to 'alleviate' the flooding risk at Newtown, underground flood tanks were installed near to where the stadium is now and the Dougie was widened at Martland Mill to create a floodplain