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Author:  pcernie [ Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:31 pm ]
Post subject:  500lb wartime bomb found in east London
500lb wartime bomb found in east London | UK news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... ast-london

Keep an eye on it, some hipster will have that away...
Author:  big_D [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 500lb wartime bomb found in east London
How often are they finding old bombs in the UK now? You would have thought that by now they would be cleared away... Especially in a built up area.

That said, we get a couple a month over here on average. My wife was driving back from Dresden in July and had to take a diversion around Hanover, because they found an old bomb on a building site near the motorway. The whole of north Germany was pretty much brought to a standstill as that is the main route east/west in Germany and Hanover is one of two major points for north/south travel as well.
Author:  jonlumb [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:46 am ]
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When you consider that there are areas of northern France that a literal no-go areas due to the incredible quantity of unexploded ordinance and chemical weapons, it's hardly surprising if the odd bomb still pops up in London.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:52 am ]
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big_D wrote:
How often are they finding old bombs in the UK now? You would have thought that by now they would be cleared away... Especially in a built up area.

That said, we get a couple a month over here on average. My wife was driving back from Dresden in July and had to take a diversion around Hanover, because they found an old bomb on a building site near the motorway. The whole of north Germany was pretty much brought to a standstill as that is the main route east/west in Germany and Hanover is one of two major points for north/south travel as well.

I think I hear about it once a year or so. They're often dredged up from river beds of the like.
Author:  oceanicitl [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:36 am ]
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Where's Bratty when you need him?
Author:  davrosG5 [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:55 am ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
Where's Bratty when you need him?

East London is full of foreign English people. He's unlikely to go there.
Author:  oceanicitl [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 500lb wartime bomb found in east London
davrosG5 wrote:
oceanicitl wrote:
Where's Bratty when you need him?

East London is full of foreign English people. He's unlikely to go there.


That's true. I'm a Londoner and even I don't go there often.

Well apart from every day the moment as they've closed my bit of the Victoria Line.
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 500lb wartime bomb found in east London
finding unexploded devices was very common where I lived as a child ( in the centre of the Somme Battlefields)

they say there's about 250k unexploded ammo there, I wouldnt be surprised if there's several thousands still in London.
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