[Roddy de Normann]

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