Preserving the Purton hulks

Over the last 100 years around eighty boats have been abandoned on the river banks to act as a defence wall against erosion.
But recently the site has been the victim of vandals and because the site hasn't had a formal owner there's been no-one to take responsibility.
Now British Waterways is taking it over.

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