The one who left

more from the road

It's raining in Cockermouth and we're following our host up the stairs. We’re telling her it’s a lovely building and she’s explaining that it used to be a pub and a nightclub and a backpackers, but no more.

There were floods in 2009 and 2015 along the main street, huge floods, fully drowning the buildings.

It nearly wiped them out, she says. Thirty years …