RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 5 minutes ago, Kylestrome said: I‘m not quite sure what there is to :) about there. Would you rather it hadn't been found? 😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted February 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23 (edited) 7 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Would you rather it hadn't been found? 😉 Obviously not, but the OP seemed to be viewing it from a different angle. There is nothing amusing about WW2 bombs being found. It‘s something that happens almost monthly here in this part of Germany. Edited February 23 by Kylestrome Correction of slight exaggeration ... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Kylestrome said: Obviously not, but the OP seemed to be viewing it from a different angle. There is nothing amusing about WW2 bombs being found. It‘s something that happens almost weekly here in this part of Germany. Many of us use this as just a free for all thread! Rather pointless opening a new one for a single comment.... Edited February 23 by Steamport Southport 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 4 minutes ago, Kylestrome said: Obviously not, but the OP seemed to be viewing it from a different angle. There is nothing amusing about WW2 bombs being found. It‘s something that happens almost weekly here in this part of Germany. Nobody said it was amusing, just that it makes some of us smile. Feel good/happy ending stories certainly do that for me. Bomb safely defused. Missing dog found. Man rescued from Cliff Richard concert 😉 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted February 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23 (edited) With the hundreds of thousands of bombs (maybe millions counting those from both sides) dropped in WW2, I am surprised that more are not still being found throughout the world. EDIT: i see that they are after reading one of the above posts. Edited February 23 by J. S. Bach To edit the post 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 Not just WW2. The battlefields of WW1 are still producing crops of unexploded shells (from both sides) 106 years after the "war to end all wars" ended. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 What he said. Have a look at the Iron Harvest on Wikipedia. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted February 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23 1 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I seem to recall a story a few years ago about them infiltrating an extremist animal rights group and later discovering everyone in it was an undercover cop! 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 (edited) 5 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: WWII bomb found in Keyham! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-devon-68354617 I wonder whether that was from the same plane that got 4911 Bowden Hall .... https://www.olddevonport.uk/Railways-Keyham Station.htm Jason Local research suggests the one currently in the news was likely to have been dropped on 22nd/23rd April 1941, so about three weeks earlier than the one that got 4911. Plymouth got a right plastering over quite a period and it's reckoned that up to one in twelve didn't detonate on the night, so there will still be plenty waiting to be found. Thankfully, this one is on its way to be detonated out to sea. John Edited February 23 by Dunsignalling 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted February 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23 (edited) Rent a band for the night 1969 prices . Edited February 23 by Sidecar Racer 14 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 Deep Purple, £125! 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 1 minute ago, The Johnster said: Deep Purple, £125! That date it would be Deep Purple Mk 1 though! No Gillan or Glover and more a bland Flower Power band. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Pink Floyd for £250! Wow! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 Fleetwood Mac most expensive at £500 though! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 I'd book Fairport Convention... 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Hroth said: I'd book Fairport Convention... Me too, especially then. It was a long time later that I saw the surviving members but they were a great night out. Edit - saying that, Steve Marriott on his own was pretty good, if I coud have afforded to pony up for the Small Faces, they'd have had a good chance of a booking as well. Edited February 23 by jwealleans 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted February 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23 5 hours ago, Hroth said: Not just WW2. The battlefields of WW1 are still producing crops of unexploded shells (from both sides) 106 years after the "war to end all wars" ended. The numbers quoted by a UXB officer a couple of days ago suggest there's a "shout" somewhere in the UK most days, on average. Fortunately, few of them are half-ton HE monsters found in densely populated areas like Keyham that make the main national news. After the Exeter University one a while back, they won't have wanted to blow that up on site.... Small stuff like discarded grenades seem to crop up in our local news bulletins every couple of weeks and don't garner much comment. I'd think it's similar across much of the country. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curlew Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 No photo, I am afraid but saw a sign at some traffic lights on Wednesday... Motion operated traffic lights (Flashing does not work) 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 2 hours ago, Dunsignalling said: I'd think it's similar across much of the country. Yes, there are quite a few inmates and parishioners of this forum that "tripped over" poorly hidden and/or forgotten war surplus. Either around Auxiliary Unit locations, or scattered along the coast. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) 12 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: With the hundreds of thousands of bombs (maybe millions counting those from both sides) dropped in WW2, I am surprised that more are not still being found throughout the world. Lest we forget Vietnam and Laos. More tonnage was dropped there than the entirety of WW2. Even if fusing was more reliable by then, a lot of it went into mud. Here: Quote Between 1965 and 1975, the United States and its allies dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia—double the amount dropped on Europe and Asia during World War II. Pound for pound, it remains the largest aerial bombardment in human history. Edited February 24 by Ozexpatriate 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24 You can find all sorts of shells on the beach, you know… Especially where there are or were firing ranges, so in my part of the world Pembrey, and the North Gower coastline, Pendine, Manorbier, and the seabed off Castlemartin ranges must be covered in unexploded ordnance. People, and not just kids, pick them up, chuck them about, throw stones at them, won't leave them alone. I leave them alone, but hiking on one occasion at Whiteford Point, North Gower, where the photogenic derelict lighthouse is, one of our party picked up a round he reckoned was from a howitzer, and was able to authoritatively state this because he’d been in the army. You’d have thought the idiot would have known better; it was badly corroded, covered with barnacles, and probably harmless, but probably isn’t good enough for The Johnster, whose aversion to stuff that goes bang unexpectedly is legendary… 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 And there's the Richard Montgomery just off Sheerness 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted February 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24 25 minutes ago, billbedford said: And there's the Richard Montgomery just off Sheerness If/when that goes up it’s going to be very spectacular and make a hell of a mess Andi 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham light infantry Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 On 22/02/2024 at 19:19, westernfan said: As I keep saying I think of myself as middle aged, then remember I don't know any 120 year olds... 1 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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