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Monday March 03, 2008 Remember, remember the 27th November..
While on a walk in the Staffordshire countryside we came across the site of the biggest conventional explosion in WW2. At 11am on this fateful day seventy people died. Old mine shafts in the area were being used to store explosives and something went horribly wrong. The resulting crater is 1/4 mile across and one hundred yards deep. A farm was blown to bits and its buildings and livestock were lost. The area is still fenced off and nature is restoring the ravaged area quite nicely. There is also a large colony or rabbits who are protected by the fence enclosing the crater.
Nearby is the National Memorial Arboretum which is a one hundred and fifty acre parkland planted with trees. There are also a multitude of memorials including one to the event above and in years to come as the trees mature it will become a very impressive place. It is just off the A38 near Burton on Trent
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