Fauld Explosion, Staffs
This is the site of the largest explosion ever on British soil. It occurred on 27th November 1944 when an underground munitions dump exploded at Fauld near the village of Hanbury in Staffordshire.
The crater is quoted as being 120 metres deep and 1200 metres across. Some 75 people died underground, in farms and factories on the surface, partly by water escaping from dams damaged by the explosion.
We visited it on 1st January. One chap we met in the Cock Inn, Hanbury said it blew windows out in Swadlingcote, 10 miles away, It was heard in Birmingham, 32 miles away, and detected by seismologists in Switzerland..
Fauld Explosion, Staffs
This is the site of the largest explosion ever on British soil. It occurred on 27th November 1944 when an underground munitions dump exploded at Fauld near the village of Hanbury in Staffordshire.
The crater is quoted as being 120 metres deep and 1200 metres across. Some 75 people died underground, in farms and factories on the surface, partly by water escaping from dams damaged by the explosion.
We visited it on 1st January. One chap we met in the Cock Inn, Hanbury said it blew windows out in Swadlingcote, 10 miles away, It was heard in Birmingham, 32 miles away, and detected by seismologists in Switzerland..