TIMELY school pupils will be marking the completion of Upton’s waterside flood defences by burying a permanent reminder of the town as it is today.
As work on the glass-topped flood wall reaches its final stages, pupils from Upton Primary School are creating a time capsule for future generations to uncover.
MP Harriett Baldwin, who joined the children on an archaeological dig of the site earlier this year, has been invited to contribute a message.
“We will be passing on a message to future generations about the things we are learning in 21st-century Britain,” she said. “Of course, I hope this message will stay safely buried for many hundreds of years and the new defences will permanently protect the town from flooding.”
The wall is the second phase of a £4 million Environment Agency project to protect the town from flooding. The other element, a bund and flood gate protecting the New Street area, was completed last year and officially opened by Mrs Baldwin
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