Unexploded WWII Bomb Found in London
One would think that London would have enough bomb worries with all the terrorist alerts in the UK. Unfortunately, they never succeeded in cleaning up all the old bombs from the last big war which targeted the British mainland… that is the Second World War. Apparently the government estimates there are 100s of unexploded bombs from that era all around the country which are dug up from time to time in construction sites. I think there was something about this in the old movie, Bedknobs & Broomsticks. Now I’m dating myself. Anyhow, hope they cleaned this up carefully!
Police closed streets near London’s Canary Wharf financial district on Saturday after an unexploded German flying bomb from World War II was found on a construction site
Bomb disposal experts were called in to make the V1 missile safe after it was unearthed close to the east London complex that houses 80,000 office workers during the working week, police said. At weekends the area is busy with shoppers and visitors.
Police closed several roads around the site in Millharbour, a road in the former docklands.
"Ambulance, fire and police are there and the building site has been evacuated," a London police spokesman said. The area was cordoned off, he said. Thousands of V1s, nicknamed "Doodlebugs", were fired at the capital during the war, with the docks a prime target.
Hundreds of unexploded bombs from the war are buried across the country, according to government figures. They are unearthed from time to time, often during building excavations.
Canary Wharf’s tenants include Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, the Independent newspaper group and Reuters.
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A CARTER
Dec 29, 2007 at 8:31 am
V1 FLYING BOMB (NEVER) IN THE CRATOR IS PROBABLY 500LB IRON CASE BOMB
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