[meteorite-list] Fauld Crater, Staffordshire, England

From: ensoramanda <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:26:19 +0100
Message-ID: <46814C3B.7090008_at_ntlworld.com>

Yes Mark...I think you are right. There are still lots of no-go areas
fenced off around the site with warnings and much of the ammo lies
buried in tunnels below with no telling how much is still live!! Shame
that the uk only has this obvious crater which is not meteoric as
craters/fall sites always feature on my list when travelling....Henbury,
Gosse Bluff, Barringer, Canyonlands, and soon Wolfe...looking forward to
that.

Graham

mark ford wrote:

>I might be wrong, but I remember hearing that there is actually still a
>lot more ordanance buried somewhere nearby, which is too dangerous to
>recover...
>
>The scary thing is that ship from WWII, which is half sunk near the
>London coast, its stacked full of munitions which is too dangerous to
>recover!
>
>
>
>Best
>
>Mark Ford
>
>
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>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fauld Crater, Staffordshire, England
>
>Hi Paul,
>
>I live about 20 miles from the Fauld crater and have visited many
>times...quite a sight and quite a story behind it. There was recently a
>memorial set up for those who died at the site. The fields around are
>strewn with the gypsum blown from the mine under the crater....many with
>
>shatter cones visible.
>
>I have an extra chilling tale about the crater and one of the reasons I
>visit with my friend. My best friend from school and now my brother in
>law belongs to a farming family who go back for many generations. His
>father's cousins and relatives farmed the land on and around the crater.
>
>On the day of the explosion the children from the farm left and went to
>school as usual. At 11:11 on that Nov 27th 1944 the whole school shook
>and the children hid under tables as windows blew in and tiles few
>everywhere. Some children then ran outside dispite warnings from
>teachers that it might be an air raid. Stones where falling from the sky
>
>and they were lucky not to be injured. The children where sent home.
>
>When the children returned home to their farm it had disappeared. The
>farm was on or very near the crater and had been completely wiped of the
>
>beautiful fields it once cared for. Their parents and farm hands were
>never found. My father and mother remember hearing/feeling the
>explosion.
>
>Graham Ensor, Nr Barwell UK
>
>Paul wrote:
>
>
>
>>Dear Friends,
>>
>>While looking around, a friend found something, which
>>looked like an impact crater at:
>>
>>Latidue 52.847117N, Longitude 1.730608W
>>
>>After a quick search, I found that it although it was
>>indeed a crater, it was not the result of a meteorite
>>impact and had more earthly origins. It was the site
>>of the Fauld explosion, which occurred when in 1944,
>>some 3,670 tons of RAF bombs exploded being stored
>>underground exploded. A paper about thsi event is:
>>
>>Waltham, T., 2001, The Fauld Crater. Mercian Geologist.
>>vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 123-125.
>>
>>A 536Kb PDF file can be obtained from:
>>
>>http://www.emgs.org.uk/files/local_geology/15(2)_fauld_crater.pdf
>>
>>The "Fauld Explosion" web page is at:
>>
>>http://www.carolyn.topmum.net/tutbury/fauld/fauldcrater.htm
>>
>>and "The world's largest-ever explosion (almost) - in
>>Staffordshire 60 years ago" at:
>>
>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/features/history/2004/fauld.shtml
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>>Paul H.
>>
>>
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