Originally Posted by
Marco
Went wrong in Tutbury, but eventually found the road to Fauld where what is said to be the biggest non-nuclear, man-made explosion occurred. (They were storing thousands of tons of high explosives in the old gypsum mine in 1944 when something caused the whole lot to blow up.) It has subsequently been planted with trees, so you can only just make out the egg-shaped crater on aerial views, but you can walk around part of the crater, and I can tell you it is very deep.
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