Large UXB in Bromley-by-Bow

In message <ob6qh5x4gs.ln2@news.aber.ac.uk>, Andrew Robert Breen
<azb@aber.ac.uk> writes
>
>A bomb that's been sitting in the ground for 60-plus years could
>be much more sensitive to vibration than it originally was.
>Explosives can get very unstable in their old age. Not nice.
>
They used AMATOL then, which doesn't have a long shelf life and isn't in
any way water proof. 60+ years buried in mud and you don't have a hair
trigger device..... you have a rusty cylinder full of sludge :-)

When they find the next I'll gladly drive the truck to the dump.

--
Edward Cowling "Must Go - Eldrad Must Live !!"

In message <5a9acab4f%Rail@greywall.>, Graeme Wall
<Rail@greywall.> writes
>In message <nSGs$QDWVmSIFwPp@genghis0.>
> Edward Cowling London UK <edward@genghis0.> wrote:
>
>> In message <7153a7ab4f%Rail@greywall.>, Graeme Wall
>> <Rail@greywall.> writes
>> >
>> >The military think it is a very dangerous object. There are around a dozen
>> >people killed every year by WW1 munitions dug up on the Western Front in
>> >Northern France and Belgium and the sludge in those rusty canisters is 90
>> >years old.
>> >
>>
>> Really ? I'd love to see the source of info ? There was a TV programme
>> a few years ago which showed French farmers regularly ploughing up all
>> sorts of WW1 ordnance and selling the decent stuff.
>>
>> No one seemed to think it was any threat !
>>
>
>If you paid attention to the TV programme it mentioned the dangers.
>
Sources ? I can say tins of Tapioca pudding should be treated with
extreme caution :-)

--
Edward Cowling "Must Go - Eldrad Must Live !!"

In message <vj7qh5x4gt.ln2@news.aber.ac.uk>, Andrew Robert Breen
<azb@aber.ac.uk> writes
>In article <nSGs$QDWVmSIFwPp@genghis0.>,
>Edward Cowling London UK <edward@genghis0.> wrote:
>>In message <7153a7ab4f%Rail@greywall.>, Graeme Wall
>><Rail@greywall.> writes
>>>
>>>The military think it is a very dangerous object. There are around a dozen
>>>people killed every year by WW1 munitions dug up on the Western Front in
>>>Northern France and Belgium and the sludge in those rusty canisters is 90
>>>years old.
>>>
>>
>>Really ? I'd love to see the source of info ? There was a TV programme
>>a few years ago which showed French farmers regularly ploughing up all
>>sorts of WW1 ordnance and selling the decent stuff.
>>
>>No one seemed to think it was any threat !
>
>Hence the twelve-odd people killed each year.
>
From Tapioca related deaths you mean ? Yes it's awful and someone
should put a stop to it :-)

--
Edward Cowling "Must Go - Eldrad Must Live !!"

Graeme Wall wrote:
>
> The military think it is a very dangerous object. There are around a
> dozen people killed every year by WW1 munitions dug up on the Western
> Front in Northern France and Belgium and the sludge in those rusty
> canisters is 90 years old.

There was also the danger that this particular one was sitting on top of a
gas main.

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't the location of this one almost
exactly upon the site of the original "Big Brother" house, that they used
for the first couple of years, before relocating to Elstree?

On Jun 7, 12:57 pm, "Jack Taylor" <J...@Carney.co.uk> wrote:
> Graeme Wall wrote:
>
> > The military think it is a very dangerous object.  There are around a
> > dozen people killed every year by WW1 munitions dug up on the Western
> > Front in Northern France and Belgium and the sludge in those rusty
> > canisters is 90 years old.
>
> There was also the danger that this particular one was sitting on top of a
> gas main.
>
> Actually, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't the location of this one almost
> exactly upon the site of the original "Big Brother" house, that they used
> for the first couple of years, before relocating to Elstree?

Never mind; with a bit of luck there's one in Elstree as well, likely
to be set off by screaming.