Phil wrote: "... View of Lower Redbrook in the aftermath of a blockage of the culvert carrying the Brook under the main road through the village c1974. For some years the remains of the Tinworks site was being used by a Waste Paper handling company. The blockage was caused by Paper Bales being washed into the culvert"

Mike Jones added (May 2011): "... Remember it well. I got a JCB there just in time to break out the kerb before any of the houses got flooded. This washed out the boiler ash tipped there by the Tinplate Company and exposed the old quay wall where the trows used to load up bark from. One of the girls sat on the bales is Linda James nee Jones. The area shown is now part of the Millennium Village Green".

Mike Jones added (March 2020): "... February 2020 the river Wye came over into the road and for the first time since 1963. At least one house was flooded again so that caused me to take a look at your archives and for the sake of correctness I thought I should correct Phil Hudson. The bale did not get 'washed' into the brook they were pushed over by a fork truck. There was a large stack of them several bales deep along the side of a open section of the brook in the works and the top bales of the back stack toppled in when a fork truck was taking bales from the front row - this was out of site of the driver and not noticed until the brook over flowed".

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