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By: 31st December 2009 at 00:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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-Thanks :)
By: 31st December 2009 at 00:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not sure how it ties-up with the Ordnance Survey maps that you have posted but here is a Google Maps image of the (surprisingly small) crater...
...there is (or should be) a Wikipedia link in the centre of the crater.
By: 31st December 2009 at 01:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not sure how it ties-up with the Ordnance Survey maps that you have posted but here is a Google Maps image of the (surprisingly small) crater......there is (or should be) a Wikipedia link in the centre of the crater.
The pic I originaly linked was a photo of the crater. A few minutes later it changed to what you now see... (they're on to us!)
By: 31st December 2009 at 01:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A few minutes later it changed to what you now see... (they're on to us!)
I’m trying to find the ‘changed’ location now...
...while listening for the screech as unmarked cars pull-up outside! :D
By: 31st December 2009 at 01:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Found it...
...still all-quiet outside! ;)
By: 31st December 2009 at 01:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Apparently it is the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Burghfield...
...I’m for it now! :diablo:
(Screech!)
By: 31st December 2009 at 01:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Yoinks!
By: 31st December 2009 at 09:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A very good illustrated article about the Fauld Explosion can be found in After The Battle #18.....
By: 31st December 2009 at 09:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Jaw dropping
By: 31st December 2009 at 10:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Depends on which articles you read but:
Explosion heard 40 miles away, broke windows 25 miles away felt 70 miles away and recorded on Seismograph instruments in Casablanca and Greenland.
All that and the authorities kept it a secret!...how?
By: 31st December 2009 at 12:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'm truely gobsmacked after reading about this - and seeing those photos..... :eek:
By: 31st December 2009 at 13:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-In the early 1990s I visited the British Gypsum Fauld works several times to supervise some on-site publicity work. During the tea breaks the gypsum workers recounted many personal stories about lost family members and friends and an event, which at that time I knew little about – the victims were still being remembered with reverence and dignity.
By: 31st December 2009 at 13:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Explosion heard 40 miles away, broke windows 25 miles away felt 70 miles away and recorded on Seismograph instruments in Casablanca and Greenland.
All that and the authorities kept it a secret!...how?
No internet! And plenty more serious things to worry about...
There was a brief mention of the Faulds explosion in British Archaeology recently - in a piece by Mick Aston where he was looking at the area, and at the use of gypsum particularly. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be on their website - but if a local library takes it...
Adrian
By: 31st December 2009 at 13:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-also a farm dissapeared when it went up as it was built virtually on top.
By: 31st December 2009 at 14:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Slightly off topic, but there is a story about an as yet unexploded underground mine full of WWI-dynamite below a farm near Messines/Belgium. Unfortunately the exact position got lost during the decades ...
By: 31st December 2009 at 15:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Am I right in thinking that the Fauld site is designated as a war grave?
By: 31st December 2009 at 16:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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Am I right in thinking that the Fauld site is designated as a war grave?
Correct. Also off limits due to unexploded ordinance here and there.
By: 31st December 2009 at 18:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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There was a brief mention of the Faulds explosion in British Archaeology recently - in a piece by Mick Aston where he was looking at the area, and at the use of gypsum particularly. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be on their website - but if a local library takes it...Adrian
I actually heard a Radio Four programme a few weeks ago on the subject with Mick Aston Adrian. It was on prior to the Archers just before 14.00...err...hurruummpphh.... not that I listen to the Archers.. but poor old Jack Wooley has gone downhill lately..oops!:D
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By: ZRX61 - 31st December 2009 at 00:45
What's that all about then? I found a pic on the web, but no story...
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Thats odd, the pic changed, lol!