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Bomb Squad On The Way To Janesboro

  • 12-08-2013 10:38pm
    #1
    jonski
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    It seems someone found an old grenade in their back garden , bomb squad on the way and street cordoned off with some houses evacuated .


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  • #2
    DarkJager
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    jonski wrote: »
    It seems someone found an old grenade in their back garden , bomb squad on the way and street cordoned off with some houses evacuated .

    Weird time of night to be in the back garden looking for grenades?


  • #3
    Poxyshamrock
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    Some amount of spectators too! They're still there.


  • #4
    jonski
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    Controlled explosion below in the Boro field , shows over folks .

    It was an old grenade that a lad found earlier on this evening while digging his back garden ,


  • #5
    juneg
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    Any story on how the grenade got there? Or how old it was?


  • #6
    Poxyshamrock
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    juneg wrote: »
    Any story on how the grenade got there? Or how old it was?

    It was from 1922. It would have been there well before the housing scheme was built.

    It makes you think how many more grenades could be scattered around under lawns! :eek:


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  • #7
    JOS52
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    Wow - Scary.


  • #8
    donutheadhomer
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    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    It was from 1922. It would have been there well before the housing scheme was built.

    It makes you think how many more grenades could be scattered around under lawns! :eek:

    the field between hyde rd and the boro pitch was used by the army as a firing range years ago. It was known as the bombing field and I expect it is a remnant of that time


  • #9
    Arciphel
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    No the Bombing Field was in what is now Prospect, and it was the British Army that used to fire their weapons there. According to my oul lad!


  • #10
    donutheadhomer
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    by army I meant the British Army too - but I think it was just that area at bottom of prospect hill - between the railway track and prospect hill. but similar/same area


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