WW2 bomb blasts Exeter

[NEWKID 28,687]

1 hour ago, South hams hunter said:

Did you see the damage to the houses NK? 

No mate, not been over there

[South hams hunter 8,988]

7 hours ago, NEWKID said:

No mate, not been over there

Misses showed me pics on fb, I'll find em and whack em on 

[South hams hunter 8,988]

There's rumours it has improved the value of some properties 

[sandymere 8,263]

 

 

[Born Hunter 17,910]

I wonder if earlier that morning the trooper in charge of how much explosives constitutes 'controlled' had got an earful off of a Starbucks wielding anti-war protesting student. 

[Greyman 31,797]

I once watched them lifting the prototype bouncing bombs from the sea off of Weymouth, apparently they used chesil beach for the trial runs before the dam buster raids In Germany, they looked like giant beer barrels around 4/5 ton a piece at a guess

[Greyman 31,797]

6 hours ago, South hams hunter said:

There's rumours it has improved the value of some properties 

Recon there could be an insurance scam about to go down at that address, a good fart would have taken that quality conservatory down by the looks of it

[Greb147 6,810]

We dug up an old shell whilst working at Port Talbot steel works around 10 year ago, I think they did a controlled explosion. 

[Greyman 31,797]

1 minute ago, Greb147 said:

We dug up an old shell whilst working at Port Talbot steel works around 10 year ago, I think they did a controlled explosion. 

That was just fireworks going off because you had stepped out of your digger and got your shoes muddy  

[Greb147 6,810]

1 minute ago, Greyman said:

That was just fireworks going off because you had stepped out of your digger and got your shoes muddy  

We did a massive job in Sheffield as well and I'm surprised we didn't discover one there as we shifted a shit load of muck, dug to some serious depth. 

[Greyman 31,797]

Just now, Greb147 said:

We did a massive job in Sheffield as well and I'm surprised we didn't discover one there as we shifted a shit load of muck, dug to some serious depth. 

There must be tons of the stuff laying around waiting to be discovered, we used to wash the mud through a gardeners sieve at the mouth of the river Avon when I was young and get loads of old live ammo, not bombs but big calibration stuff looked like the last few rounds from a belt as there were normally 2,3,or 4 big brass bullets on a clip, the Germans used the river to navigate upto Bristol and must have just been firing the machine guns at anything on the water

[twobob 1,519]

19 hours ago, NEWKID said:

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-devon-56229045&ved=2ahUKEwiSgKCzqI3vAhWhtXEKHa2WAG4QyM8BMAB6BAgCEAY&usg=AOvVaw2FCWLHCbc-dzhkUj7EsGzg&ampcf=1

Shook our windows and we're 4 miles away!

Get a claim in lol

[steve66 3,756]

2 hours ago, Greyman said:

There must be tons of the stuff laying around waiting to be discovered, we used to wash the mud through a gardeners sieve at the mouth of the river Avon when I was young and get loads of old live ammo, not bombs but big calibration stuff looked like the last few rounds from a belt as there were normally 2,3,or 4 big brass bullets on a clip, the Germans used the river to navigate upto Bristol and must have just been firing the machine guns at anything on the water

some east coast beaches are littered with the stuff , bullets often turn up metal detecting 

[king 12,030]

This is some bang.and excavator clearing mines..the driver gets shook a bit..

 

[kanny 21,694]

There's a few groups on YouTube  metal detecting battle feilds in Europe,  some of the stuff they find is incredible  and some quite gruesome.

Warning  you can go down one  hell of a rabbit hole once you start watching lol