Or a tunnel eh shucky.
Nicely done, looks good mate, more!
(Black Shuck I hope you don't mind me posting this, I'm not trying to steal your thunder but I thought that people might be interested) Gordon
The other thing about these depots that not many people know about, is that apart from filling shells and aircraft bombs there were also things called "Bulk Contamination Vehicles" These were a cross between a petrol tanker and a farm slurry sprayer. If the Germans had invaded the BCVs would have been driven along roads that the enemy had to cross, with the pumps running and laid a 30 odd yard wide belt of Mustard gas in front of the advancing Germans, to cause casualties and slow them down. It's probably just as well the Germans never did invade, as faced with belts of contaminated land in front of their troops they may well have responded with Tabun, Soman and Sarin the first of the nerve agents that we knew nothing about at the time and had no protection against.
Good job we didn't 'cos if had of started using them we'd have got humped big stylee. Post WW2 it was discovered that the Jerries had somewhere in the region of 250,000 tons of nerve gas (Tabun, Sarin) - quite why they didn't use it is anyones guess although there is some suggestion that Hitler thought that it was a rather distasteful method of warfare having been gassed hmself during WW1. The Allies split up the German stock of chemical weapons and we ended up storing 71,000 bombs full of the stuff for about 10 years on what is now Caernarfon Airport in North Wales. In 1955 and 1956 they were all dumped in the Atlantic - 3 ships were loaded up with the ordnance, sailed out into the Atlantic about 200 miles NW of N Ireland and sunk. And there they lie slowly rotting away... hopefully!
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