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Meanwhile, over in Brownhills West…
It’s funny how some things happen in twos and threes. The same anonymous contributor who doggedly sought out the story of the massive 2,240lb. ‘Hermann’ wartime bomb, discovered and defused in Walsall Wood, noticed this side-story in the same 1968 … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Events, Followups, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories
Tagged April 1968, British Army Mortar, Brownhills local history, Brownhills West, Brownhills West history, Hermann bomb, Local History, PC Ballard, R Birch, Shannon Walk, Unexploded Wartime bomb, Walsall Observer, Wilkin Estate
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