‘We can’t live in this’: the tightknit Chesterfield street devastated by flooding

Lorna Squires said the water broke off her back door and flooded through her letterbox. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

Almost every square inch of the houses along Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield is covered in a thick layer of wet brown mud.

Inside the homes, brown lines across the walls show that water levels reached a height of 1.5 metres (5ft).