70th anniversary of the Fauld Explosion.

[Gramaisc]

Seventy years ago today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-30218324

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_explosion

It has to be assumed that not all the explosives went off at the time.

The crater is less obvious today, but still there.

 

[Hetairoi]

Well worth a visit, the crater is as big as anything on the Western Front.

 

[gon2seed]

Visited it a couple of times, well worth a visit! My last visit to the area, was as the member of a fire crew sent to extinguish a fire in the back of a refuse truck! It was well alight, when we came out of the station about 5 miles away we could see the plume of smoke, so there was no need for the Satnav', or the maps! It had knocked out the hydrolics so we had to remove all the waste by pitchfork! Had to call the Damage Limitation Unit out as well, as the water from the burning effluent was in danger of polluting a local water course which flowed into the Trent! Smelly job, and we had to all be kitted up, and be decontaminated!

 

[Toble]

I believe it was the largest non-nuke explosion ever, and the tunnels still contain "a shed load" of explosives but are too dangerous to enter, lest the next explosion be even bigger.

 

[loca]

You can easily spend a day walking around this site - park up in Hanbury, near the pub, and set of from there.

There is a walk which takes you around the crater, and a longer one I think, which takes you into Tutbury, around in to Fauld and then back in to Hanbury. The crater has been left alone since the explosion, so nature has taken over. There have been a number of books written about the explosion, notably by a guy called Mark Rowe.

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Latest-...idence-Fauld/story-22886142-detail/story.html

I'm sure I have heard somewhere that the blast was heard as far away as Wolverhampton.

 

[John Marwood]

You can easily spend a day walking around this site - park up in Hanbury, near the pub, and set of from there.,

There is a walk which takes you around the crater, and a longer one I think, which takes you into this, around in to Fauld and then back in to Hanbury. The crater has been left alone since the explosion, so nature has taken over. There have been a number of books written about the explosion, notably by a guy called Mark Rowe.

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Latest-...idence-Fauld/story-22886142-detail/story.html

I'm sure I have heard somewhere that the blast was heard as far away as Wolverhampton.

Wolverhampton? Try Somerset...( or Geneva if you have a good imagination )