RAF Fauld explosion anniversary

Well done Moggy – I was going to pop this on here but you were way ahead!

When reading about the Lochnagar Crater mine at La Boisselle on the Somme a few days ago, I started looking into large non-nuclear explosions – only to find out about Fauld and the imminent anniversary.

Plenty of time to write a reading comprehension for my class to complete this morning! They were suitably awed – two of them have been to Lochnagar with me. The crater at Fauld is as deep as Lochnagar is wide…..

From within the tunnels at Fauld.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/91209-RAF-Fauld-Munitions-Storage-Depot-June-2013

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Sorry, images blurred due to 300kb limit.

Also see http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?96690-RAF-Fauld-WWII-explosion-crater (but Goodness knows what the first photo there has got to do with the subject!).

Thanks for posting this link Moggy.

I first heard about this around twenty years ago. I was on site at the nearby British Gypsum factory photographing some weighing equipment and the topic came up while we were sat in the tea-room at the processing plant.

I was extremely humbled by one of the plant technicians recounting lucid details of the incident and concluding with the fact that he’d lost several relatives in the explosion that occurred!

We should all remember that there are many different aspects of RAF / local history!