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A very tragic story, I imagine that many of the future residents in the area will have no idea of the tragedy that unfolded there all those years ago, lets hope they take the time to read the memorial and research the history of the soil beneath their feet.
The sentence starting " It wasn't World War One's largest explosion..." seems specific to England, rather than the world. Faversham and Nottingham are little firecrackers next to Halifax.
@Chz
I had to look it up - that's Halifax Nova Scotia, not Yorkshire, and indeed flattening everything within an area a mile across (and killing 2000 people) with 2,900 tons of TNT-equivalent does put the others into perspective.

Canada was still part of the British Empire in 1917. (I was going to say "on British soil", but the explosion was on a ship in the harbour)
I have visited the memorial in Halifax Nova Scotia and its huge, the devastation there was massive and the story of the events leading up to the accident and the resulting destruction are very moving.
My granddad told me about this when I was in my teens. He lived near Lee Green and thought the Arsenal (Woolwich) had gone up.

His sister worked there and he feared the worst.










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