The big Telford clean up begins
The big Telford clean up begins
Many businesses and homes in Telford are counting the cost of the storms overnight.
Pubs, supermarkets and factories across mainly North Telford were affected by the torrential rainstorms that battered buildings, bring down the ceilings and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
The Beacon in Wellington, the Hop & Vine, and Asda in Donnington all had ceiling collapses. McDonalds at Forge Retail Park had water pouring through the ceiling, and a factory on Hortonwood saw water gushing onto the factory floor.
Clifford Taylor the landlord at the Beacon told Telford Live "We are devastated. We only opened back up on the 4th of July following the Covid closure."
Some roads were also impassable, cars getting stranded on Trench Loch(!), and others struggling to get around due to floodwater and abandoned cars.
In South Telford, it was a different picture, with residents on Brookside reporting just light rain.
See the comments for more, pics and videos. Feel free to add yours.
Video: Beacon in Wellington
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More gutter journalism. Since when when was Brookside in North Telford! 😉
Read the report again. It clearly says Brookside is in South Telford.
Lorraine Pritchard
Paddy Murphy
Hadley
Emma Morgan
Do you know if the roads to ironbridge are passible? (Atcham, leighton, buildwas etc)
Trade was slowly picking up, and now this….!
Elizabeth Enright Kirsty Thompson Laura Stacey
Jodie Jukes Toni Elizabeth Shepherd
Nikki Challoner
Sharon Kaur
Jack Griffin
Joey Moore
Lisa Hill
Nicola Martin
John Churan
Weatherspoons in Wellington had to close early last nigth
George Langford
Sonia Corbett
Andy Turner
Charlotte-louise Taphouse
Julie Harper Lucy Jayne Mcmanus look at the comments xx
Charlie Powell
Sarah Hurdley Nicole Watson Jade Watson look at comments
Heather Massey
Shanice Roberts look at the comments
Morgan Jones
Brendan Rose
Tracy Turner
Omg
Richard McCreary
South Telford was definitely not light rain it was very heavy most of the night
Jana Cheyenne Poth
Patrick Davenport Janice Jones go through the comments
Beki Morris Diane Egan look at the vids in comments
Wellington was horrific
Lauren Bailey