We've held off posting this site for a long time, even though people couldn't stop getting the glory elsewhere. Probably the same retards that, even though this is in the countryside, isn't overlooked, and had discrete access, managed to get it locked down and backfilled. Good work.
A bit of history from Nick McCamley...
To read more about that and see some excellent historical pictures please see here... Fauld and here... RAF Fauld explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interestingly, the Fauld explosion was 4kt, Hiroshima was 16kt. Also, more people died at the nearby Gypsum plant than at the ammo depot.
So, going back 6 or 7 years, I had a wander around the crater a few times. I was sure that somewhere in the crater there must be a hole into the remaining two thirds of the mine. There wasn't unfortunately. So I gave up, thinking that was that.
So a phone call years later and I was there with 'some people'. Jeez, how could we have missed the entrance. It's there in the old pictures for gods sake. And it was open.
Note: The site is split into three distinct areas - The High Explosive store and Fuse store which were accessible, and the Incendiary store, which wasn't. The pictures are all mixed up by the way.
Initially, you're into a very well preserved ammunition dump. No graffiti or litter. White walls. Everything still intact. So intact there was still a few bits of ammo kicking about.
A bit of history from Nick McCamley...
To read more about that and see some excellent historical pictures please see here... Fauld and here... RAF Fauld explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interestingly, the Fauld explosion was 4kt, Hiroshima was 16kt. Also, more people died at the nearby Gypsum plant than at the ammo depot.
So, going back 6 or 7 years, I had a wander around the crater a few times. I was sure that somewhere in the crater there must be a hole into the remaining two thirds of the mine. There wasn't unfortunately. So I gave up, thinking that was that.
So a phone call years later and I was there with 'some people'. Jeez, how could we have missed the entrance. It's there in the old pictures for gods sake. And it was open.
Note: The site is split into three distinct areas - The High Explosive store and Fuse store which were accessible, and the Incendiary store, which wasn't. The pictures are all mixed up by the way.
Initially, you're into a very well preserved ammunition dump. No graffiti or litter. White walls. Everything still intact. So intact there was still a few bits of ammo kicking about.
Shows the very different construction to other wartime sites. Very sad story about the explosion, sounds like it may have been caused by one careless person
Awesome to see this place looking how I actually saw it & definitely not how I photographed it 
