We went to interview Mrs Drower. She
is 72 this year and she was a dinner
lady at our school. We wanted to ask
her about the floods in 1968 because
she was living in one of the houses
which was flooded. We thought that the
floods were important because they
have made such a change to Keynsham.
She said the floods came up to the
ceiling of the downstairs room. Some
people were on the roofs of the houses
to escape from the flood below them.
In the middle of the night she thought
she heard someone at the door but it
was the water, which broke the door
down. Many things were washed away but
she found her husband's jacket with
his wallet in the pocket. They had to
wash and scrub the pound notes and
hang them up to dry in the window.
(Mrs Drower lives at Dapps Hill,
Keynsham by the River Chew.)