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I was being sarcastic Jeff
Posted by Mick on Wed Jan 16, 2002 08:36:44 AM
In reply top Re: My local "Band Of Brothers". posted by Jeff on Tue Jan 15, 2002 10:03:00 AM
: : During Nov 1940 a lone German bomber, Dornier 17 I think
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: : unloaded a stick of bombs starting right where the new s
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: : dium now is.....it just missed the old football ground.
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: : I have seen a map of where every one of the bombs fell a
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: : at least two fell on that piece of land, one of which d
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: : n't explode as far as I recall.
: : Another two at least fell in the canalised River Soar wh
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: : h runs behind the stadium land, and I definitely know th
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: : one of those did not explode.....it is most probably st
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: : l embedded in the bottom of the river.
: : Another one fell and didn't explode where there is now a
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: : owing cub and an International Youth Hostel.
: : Several more fell and the last one in the stick blew up
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: : o houses a couple of streets from my house, where there
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: : now a very odd looking 1980's style house between the o
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: : Victorian houses on either side.
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: : I didn't find it worthwhile to tell the local authoritie
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: : about the possible UXB's on the new stadium site and the
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: : iver next door......not my place and they know better th
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: : me..............
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: You trust beaurocrats to know better than others? Now ther
: e is a worry.