I AM writing concerning the recent flooding.

I am fed up every year hearing from someone in Western Road complaining about the flooding basements.

I shall be 92 in April. When I was a small child my friends lived in Western Road. Even in the summer holidays we would go through the basements – very often walking through water – to play in the back garden. I don’t know if it was a law or not but everyone was informed it was a floodplain quite close to the river and not to use basements as living quarters.

I guess that this knowledge was not passed on to subsequent owners when one by one the houses were sold.

Thank you Ryan Flanagan of Western Road for letting me know – Thames Water responsibility or residents?

BRENDA HORWOOD (Miss)
Marlborough Road
Oxford