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Inside the secret facility restoring toppled Edward Colston statue

Telegraph, 18 Jun 2020
The torn-down statue of Edward Colston is being painstakingly renovated at a secret warehouse in Bristol.

The controversial memorial to the slave trader became the centre stage when it was pulled down by protesters during a Black Lives Matter march, before being thrown into the water.

It had stood on its plinth, in the centre of Bristol, for 125 years.

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