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WW1 Bomb disposal
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Thank you.
There are still signs up, even close to the very public Verdun Ossuary, warning people not to cross the fence, for the danger of unexploded ordnance. I have also seen piles of shells, on the edge of farmers’ fields, all part of the so called, “Iron Harvest’. I can only imagine what it’s like to live in somewhere like Afghanistan, littered by years of profligate and terrible modern weaponry,
We get the very occasional bomb disposal warning in London E1, too. Lord only knows how many lie in the Thames mud or under the water itself.
There are still signs up, even close to the very public Verdun Ossuary, warning people not to cross the fence, for the danger of unexploded ordnance. I have also seen piles of shells, on the edge of farmers’ fields, all part of the so called, “Iron Harvest’. I can only imagine what it’s like to live in somewhere like Afghanistan, littered by years of profligate and terrible modern weaponry,
We get the very occasional bomb disposal warning in London E1, too. Lord only knows how many lie in the Thames mud or under the water itself.
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You’ll no doubt remember the rotting fertiliser bulk carrier that exploded in Beirut, in 2020. That was one hell of a bang. As was the very dodgy warehouse in China that went up.
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Reminds me of a mate of mine who was having a new roof fitted to his house in Dartford, they found a shell lodged in the rafters. The roofers called in the authorities to remove it thinking it was from a bombing raid up the Thames, on closer inspection it turned out it was a 3.7" anti aircraft shell probably fired from a gun emplacement across the river in Tilbury.
I've been over to the Somme area and Ypres a couple of times. I flew to Beauvais and hired a car. It amazed me travelling through the countryside to see shells stuck in the square holes in some of the Electricity/telegraph poles (apparently they are all numbered and therefore easy for the bomb disposal folk to find). When I was over in late June early July 2014 I was talking to a waiter in Ypres, who was telling me that in March two builders were killed and three more people were injured when they were digging a foundation for a house extension just outside the town and the digger bucket set off some unexploded ordnance.
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