The operation's commander said it had been unsafe to move the bomb. Col Daniel Reyland said: "No matter how many mitigation measures are taken, it is not always possible to physically prevent all damage. Hundreds of people were evacuated after the bomb was found on Friday. Col Reyland said the bomb was one of only about 10 large air-dropped weapons dealt with every year.
It was of a type that the disposal team did not recall seeing for at least three years. He said the "preferred solution" would have been removing it, but "as time passes this option is becoming increasingly less likely, as the bombs degrade in the ground". The disposal team put in hundreds of tonnes of sand to help reduce the effects of the blast, along with trenches to limit the "ground shock" of the explosion.
All 1, students evacuated are expected to have returned to their accommodation by the end of the week. A number of homes in Copplestone Road as well as a nearby care home were severely damaged, said Exeter City Council.
Council leader Philip Bialyk said the authority had been "providing around-the-clock security to help homeowners as they start to rebuild their lives". Many of those affected had been allowed back to their properties.
He said homeowners were "getting to grips with the impact of the blast" and the council would "continue to support them". Bomb disposal teams destroyed the device in a tonne "box" of sand just before GMT on Saturday in an explosion heard up to five miles 8km away. I wonder how many of us living in larger cities are blissfully unaware of explosive devices from Ww2, some 80 years ago buried in our gardens or even underneath post Ww2 houses?
Could be a Herman kg. That would take out a few houses if it went off. My mum 92 says she remembers quite a few going off in London during the Blitz. Looks like the Streatham bomb is a SC, a thin-case non-penetrating bomb.
They were large bombs dropped early in raids to break buildings open, which would then be ignited by incendiaries, dropped mainly later in the raid. My mother and her parents were in Exeter during the blitz. Is this the kind of bomb she called a landmine? I grew up in Belle Vue Road Exmouth, as a very young child my grandmother asked me to pick some mint. I had only gone a short distance from the house when I was called back to be a saucepan to prevent me dropping the mint at which point a low flying aircraft came over strafing the house, there was still a bullet hole in the sitting room door frame, when we left in the s.
It is thought that this was part of 7th May raid, and the planes followed the Exe to reach their target. Anybody offhand know what German planes would have been used to drop these very large bombs? My grandfather was killed by a bomb blast I believe in a shopping district on a Saturdag,does anybody have any details of the raid?
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