Purton boat graveyard in about 1968. The Dursley and Harriet have only been there a few years. The Sharpness railway bridge has three spans left in place. The railway swing bridge is open and soon to be removed. The white superstructure just visible at the base of the leftmost remaining span is a beached ship, the wrecked Severn King.
Today the Harriet and Dursley staunchly continue to hold back bank erosion even though loss of timbers and fire have reduced them somewhat. The grass seems to have reclaimed a lot of the bank and engulfs the boats too. The Severn King is gone having been cut up a long time ago. This angle could only have been taken by standing on the Edith but vandals have burned all of it save for the steel box structure. I climbed up on the remaining steel box trying to get the same perspective; I couldn’t get quite high enough.