Purton Hulks - Gloucester and Sharpness

[Dave_P]

Here's some pics I took last month of the barges which have been deliberately beached at Purton next to the G&S. Hope you like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 11, 2014 by Dave_P

[cotswoldsman]

I trust you popped into The Berkley Arms and said hello to Wendy for me while you were there one of my favourite pubs no food no children and a landlady that says it as she see it hehe

Edited May 11, 2014 by cotswoldsman

[Dave_P]

I trust you popped into The Berkley Arms and said hello to Wendy for me while you were there one of my favourite pubs no food no children and a landlady that says it as she see it hehe

I did. She remembered you well!

 

 

 

 

[cotswoldsman]

Oh and great photos David I love walking round those wrecks

[Pluto]

They have gone downhill a bit since 1975.

 

At that time there were more wooden boat remains nearby, over at Lydney. The wooden flats at the entrance to the Sankey Navigation in Widnes were also fairly complete, as were those at Sutton Level Lock on the Weaver. For L&LC boats, the best place for remains was, and probably still is, the lower tidal reaches of the Douglas, where around 30 boats were sunk as bank protection in the first half of the twentieth century. There are still quite a few Thames sailing barge remains about, and the Society for Sailing Barge Research do produce a good guide, but further north on the east coast there are fewer remains, most having disappeared in the last forty years. There were interesting clinker keel remains on the Ouse, opposite and just above Goole, but I haven't visited them for twenty years so can't say much about their condition. There were also remains of Tyne keels near Newcastle, but they were almost completely broken up over thirty years ago.

[sueb]

Flew over there Friday

[trackman]

Terrific pictures thanks. The really unusual boats are the ferro cement ones, which seem to be surviving remarkably well. They were, I understand, not a great success in use though! A war time idea to economise on steel and other materials that were in short supply.

[Pluto]

Terrific pictures thanks. The really unusual boats are the ferro cement ones, which seem to be surviving remarkably well. They were, I understand, not a great success in use though! A war time idea to economise on steel and other materials that were in short supply.

There is an article about them in this year's Waterways Journal.

[Gaz B]

Waterways World has a photo comp on at the moment, can I suggest you enter one or two of these! Personally I have always found abandoned, ruined or other such dramatic hull pics really moving.