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Field adjoining Edge Hall Road, Orrell. 5th September 1940
Field adjoining Edge Hall Road, Orrell. 5th September 1940
Photo: Charnock
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Item #: 14210
10 High Explosive, 1 UXB.Recovery was abandoned 4th December 1940.Finally recovered by NO.5 POW BDS from Huyton in 1947

Comment by: Keith Ashcroft on 5th April 2011 at 12:21

When the M58 was being built I believe that a bomb squad spent weeks looking for this bomb, perhaps that is why they couldn`t find it.My dad worked the farm at the time the bomb was dropped and I could have told them that the bomb had already been dug up.

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