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2020-12-12 20:15:06 UTC
__. One cold and wet Friday evening in November 1986, 30-year-old Robbie Hall, an acting major in the Royal Engineers, took a call. A civilian maintenance diver had found an unexploded Second World War bomb in a working gas holder at Beckton, east London. Hall was not on duty, but he was the only diving officer in the regiment.
“The stage for this drama had been set many years before I was born,” he recalled. “The German 500kg bomb had failed to detonate as it passed through Gasometer 4 at Beckton in 1941. It had remained unnoticed until the broken nose section wrought a small hole in the skin of the holder, 40ft down in the deep sump of the gasworks.” The civilian diver, a former
“The stage for this drama had been set many years before I was born,” he recalled. “The German 500kg bomb had failed to detonate as it passed through Gasometer 4 at Beckton in 1941. It had remained unnoticed until the broken nose section wrought a small hole in the skin of the holder, 40ft down in the deep sump of the gasworks.” The civilian diver, a former