- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Bomb disposal - Advice Please
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sheepdip
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- Location
- SW Scotland
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
i once worked beside the marshalling yards at crewe, there were ponds everywhere in the fields.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Attitudes to explosives were a lot more casual during and after the war. I clearly remember my uncle having sticks of gelignite on the front shelf of the Landrover which he used to blast rocks on the farm. One rock went through the LR windscreen! He used hand grenades for fishing. There's a MOD weapons training range next door. Bomb Disposal are usually called out at the weekend to tidy up anything that didn't go off!
this reminds me of the dead horse thread 
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
After the war there was loads of left over weapons and ordnance, the Home Guard chucked loads of it in the ponds around here.
We have a pond with anti aircraft shells and .303 rounds thrown in. Used to dig them out when we were kids and pull them apart so we could light the gunpowder.
The gunpowder is actually cordite i think and is in strips rather than powder.
Love the not looking for metal detecting suggestion.
We have a pond with anti aircraft shells and .303 rounds thrown in. Used to dig them out when we were kids and pull them apart so we could light the gunpowder.
The gunpowder is actually cordite i think and is in strips rather than powder.
Love the not looking for metal detecting suggestion.
Old Boar
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- Location
- West Wales
A local old boy, Dai the egg (he sold eggs) found a small bomb in one of his fields. He took it down the pub where it was passed round and examined with interest. Someone in the pub had some experience with bombs and got a bit nervous, and called the bomb squad, who took it down the beach and set it off.
There was a hell of a bang.
Dai was called Dai the bomb after that.
There was a hell of a bang.
Dai was called Dai the bomb after that.
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Atleast you have an idea where it might be ,,well that's if there actually was one ..
Centrica gas decided to build a dirty great terminal up on the east coast ,north of the humber ,,well back in the war it was heavily guarded with anti aircraft batteries along the cliff tops ,,so back in 2008 Centrica are doing some huge expansions to the site ,,diggers everywhere ,,nobody knew that all the fields around this place are littered with old munitions ,,
one day we are digging away and one of the smaller diggers uproots this lump of metal from 30ft down in a hole ,,somebody taps it with a hammer only to see it a gun shell ..
600 staff of site in seconds ,,caterick bomb squad turn up 3 hrs later and discover it was a dud they used practice rounds ,,if it had been a live one and gone off there would be hole the size of atom bomb crater left
Centrica gas decided to build a dirty great terminal up on the east coast ,north of the humber ,,well back in the war it was heavily guarded with anti aircraft batteries along the cliff tops ,,so back in 2008 Centrica are doing some huge expansions to the site ,,diggers everywhere ,,nobody knew that all the fields around this place are littered with old munitions ,,
one day we are digging away and one of the smaller diggers uproots this lump of metal from 30ft down in a hole ,,somebody taps it with a hammer only to see it a gun shell ..
600 staff of site in seconds ,,caterick bomb squad turn up 3 hrs later and discover it was a dud they used practice rounds ,,if it had been a live one and gone off there would be hole the size of atom bomb crater left
- Location
- cheshire
South Cheshire is full of ponds Crewe being a major rail town was an obvious target ,the Luftwaffe also put loads of ordnance down on its bombing runs in and out of Liverpool , there was also a huge munitions factory just over the border at marchweil that they never got but peppered the South Cheshire countryside with bombs in a vain attempt to find it .
CrevisbigX
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- Location
- Cheshire
Not to far away in south east Cheshire they did the same thing when bombing Manchester when returning just to empty any remaining bombs.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Three bombs were dropped on farm land near Powis castle by welshpool why would they target that?
Thinking royals staying there?
One hole is hellish deep where the bomb went vertical into the Rock.
Thinking royals staying there?
One hole is hellish deep where the bomb went vertical into the Rock.
kneedeep
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- Location
- S W Lancashire
We're on the other side of Lpool
Once they'd done their run they'd empty out over here.
Pits in nearly every field
G grandad in home guard/fire service.
Big panic one night when pathfinder incendiaries set local wood on fire
Fear was it'd decoy em in
Old fella got in late after dealing with it
Called up 'I'm back' to ggrandmother
and dropped down dead.
Only other casualty of bombing was an old white horse in a stable alongside canal, the hole's still there.
Landy Nick
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A mate dug and cleared the pond out beside the house he built and dug several small bombs out.
After doing a bit of research afterwards, he found out that the home guard disposed of unexploded bombs in this pond.
After doing a bit of research afterwards, he found out that the home guard disposed of unexploded bombs in this pond.
or very thickThey rolled a bomb into a pond? christ almighty , balls of steel
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
They dumped thousands of tons of bombs and worse into the sea between scotland and ireland after ww2, and scuttled a heap of u boats too.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Think of all that metal!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
our town got a stick of bombs dumped on it,a dozen houses and the cinema destroyed.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I asked a farming friend if his farm road had had a stick of 500 pounders dropped on it, it was that rough. as in you nearly need a snorkel.
CrevisbigX
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- Location
- Cheshire
Send in the pikeys.