Buried carriers in UK?
 

I have owned a carrier in the uk for many years and whilst attending shows public / old vets have told me storys about carriers being buerid in the UK after the war, especially canadian kit.
One story which keeps coming up seems to be at the end of a runway.
But the big question is where?
Anybody got any ideas?
Point me and a metal detector in the right direction.
If you don't want to share this info please private mail me.

Dig for victory!!
:note:

Barry
London

Buried Goodies
 

Hi to all -

Not just carriers were buried...everything and anything. One of the real treasures that I have heard of is old aircraft Merlin engines, tanks in S Wales and so on.

This is not rumour either. I recently unearthed a file in the Nat Archives entitled 'Pit Dumping'. Closed in about 1948, this file discusses using old mine shafts to dump the detritis of war...

For instance:

Cotton Storage, Scot Lane, Wigan

Bituminous Paint
Nasty chemicals
Scrap Rubber & Footwear

Woodhead, New Haden, Cheadle

Incendiary bomb bodies
Scrap tyre beading


Sneyd Lane 3 & 4, Bloxwich, Staffs

Radio Sets

Reynolds Pit, Bloxwich, Staffs

Radio Sets

Wonder, New Haden, Cheadle

Radio Sets



Standley Bros 6 & 7, Haunchwood Rd, Nuneaton

Radio Sets & components
Flare Trip Wires
Tyre Beading & Parasheets

Delphouse 9 & 10, Cheadle, Staffs

Radio Sets
Incendiary Bomb bodies


Top Pit 1 & 2, Berry Hill, Staffs

Scrap radio Components
Condensers
Paints

Fair Oaks 5, Rugeley, Staffs

Radio & Radar Sets & Components
Obsolete Aircraft Components
Glass

The above is just a flavour of some of the materials dumped down the mineshafts. One wonders what else has been buried in the past ?

Roddy

Dumping unused military surplus in holes and covering it up happened all over the world after the war was over. French and Dutch farmers filled shell holes with almost anything they recovered from the battlefields in their areas so they could more easily level out the fields for planting again with minimal top soil and effort involved. Nobody at the time would have guessed the value today of German WWII helmets and equipment. Talk about a cash crop.

A few years ago a dump was found when a guy in the UK was planning to expand his outdoor patio. They dug end encountered over 1000 Number 69 hand grenade bodies with fuzes.

More recently in Florida there is the school playground where they have been finding live bombs all over the place as well as a complete army tank which was buried.

Dig for victory
 

Fantastic information, But what about carriers where are they buried?
I can hardly go digging down old mine shafts.
Barry

ok bren carriers coming up in gardens in NZ, i have the front armor of one from a dam in canada, MK IVs coming up all over the place in the balkins, 12 shermans harvisted in belguim, norway just sold a crop of brit armor, i guess all you need is a metal detector and you are gold.
DD

I went for a job near Dartmouth in Devon some years ago with the local Council.

They told me that the site of one of their Recreation Grounds had been used after the First World War to store a number of surrended German Submarines. These docks or what ever they were had subsequently been used has a rubbish tip and filled in to make the current recreation ground.

The story was that these Submarines had been buried during construction and in more recent years the Council had refused a request from the German Navy to carry out an exploritory dig.

Quite what the truth is in this I do not know but it was the Councils Parks Manager which told me this story.

sounds about right, was watching a show about the dome in toronto and its built on a old rubish dumping ground recovered from the river.

also in san fran durring the gold rush 100s of ships made it to the city docks and never left. they are still there and the area was filled in and houses were built on top of them.

Want a Civil War-period Monitor?
 

Rumor around the Civil War Round Table of Wilmington is that two or three twin-turret Monitors (Onondaga-class I think) were used to create a breakwater along the New Jersey shore of the Delaware River.

Back to the original post, I'd be happy to find a stash of 1/35 scale Tamiya carriers. . . .

Happy Hunting!

Bob :cheers: