satan18
Well-Known Member
Hear is a rather nice lump of schrapnel that i found in 1986.
Before i worked in the building and engineering industry i was a JCB
operator in The City of London Cemetery,which Backs on to the main
railway line between Ilford and Manor park E12.
The Cemetery covers some 211 acres with two cremetoriums,one church and a non conformist chapel.
There is a catacoombes shaped like a big horse shoe and is in an earth embankment,which was allegedly targeted by german bombers,as my old foreman found a lump of 3.7 projectile steel wedged into the roof in the 50s.
When i started there in the very early eighties most of the old staff were still there and could remember the cemetery during WW2.
Along the railway lines which covered most of the wanstead flats were
rail mounted anti aircraft guns which were hidden in tunnels until the air raids took place.
The vast area of land in front of the railway was dedicated to the comunual graves and state burial land,and even the overspill from the chollera victims.
I was driving my vehicle across the land with grass tyres fitted when i actually felt this under my tyre,and thats a seven ton vehicle.
I can only assume its the top of a 3.7 but could someone enlighten me
please.
Before i worked in the building and engineering industry i was a JCB
operator in The City of London Cemetery,which Backs on to the main
railway line between Ilford and Manor park E12.
The Cemetery covers some 211 acres with two cremetoriums,one church and a non conformist chapel.
There is a catacoombes shaped like a big horse shoe and is in an earth embankment,which was allegedly targeted by german bombers,as my old foreman found a lump of 3.7 projectile steel wedged into the roof in the 50s.
When i started there in the very early eighties most of the old staff were still there and could remember the cemetery during WW2.
Along the railway lines which covered most of the wanstead flats were
rail mounted anti aircraft guns which were hidden in tunnels until the air raids took place.
The vast area of land in front of the railway was dedicated to the comunual graves and state burial land,and even the overspill from the chollera victims.
I was driving my vehicle across the land with grass tyres fitted when i actually felt this under my tyre,and thats a seven ton vehicle.
I can only assume its the top of a 3.7 but could someone enlighten me
please.
