World War 2 ammo dumps
In !953 in Kirkby near Liverpool.Ex army soldier Harry Watts was employed by the then Liverpool City Council to transport and bury United States Military hardware.Driving for a now untracable company based in Yardley Road Kirkby his job was to collect from Burtonwood Airbase all kinds of hardware from aircraft engines wrapped in greased canvas to guns and bazookas,including ammunition and shells.Two of the locations for the dump are.One Knowsley Delph,now filled in and built on by Telewest.The other is facing News International to the right of Yorkshire Metals,the hill.And it went on untill the 1960's resulting in some "unknown chemicals" on the now landscaped KIrkby Moss.Which,incidently contains underground cistern water supplies.
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In !953 in Kirkby near Liverpool.Ex army soldier Harry Watts was employed by the then Liverpool City Council to transport and bury United States Military hardware.Driving for a now untracable company based in Yardley Road Kirkby his job was to collect from Burtonwood Airbase all kinds of hardware from aircraft engines wrapped in greased canvas to guns and bazookas,including ammunition and shells.Two of the locations for the dump are.One Knowsley Delph,now filled in and built on by Telewest.The other is facing News International to the right of Yorkshire Metals,the hill.And it went on untill the 1960's resulting in some "unknown chemicals" on the now landscaped KIrkby Moss.Which,incidently contains underground cistern water supplies.
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i have heard that the us military hardware including jeeps (Gps..general personnel carriers) were dismantled, motorbikes harley -davidsons, and also aircraft engines these were all mass produced and assembled and stored at burtonwood for the latter part of the war..but never used or needed.once peace was achieved the goods already shipped to britain on lend leases system and marshall aid plan to save capitlaism in place they began to start up briish industry to compete with us and europe.. so after they sold off surplus transport lorries for about a£1 each to drivers and food rations and other measures slacked off..the decision to bury or destroy surplus goods was taken ..
this was rumour mill at halewood fords by the car workers who reckoned the engines were still buried to stimulate the car and transport industy..rather than have anything for free..
what other rubbish they lso buried needs investigating further,,burtonwood has been sold off to private developers i think now.
these are something that the scoop journalist at Nerve could look into or i may dig deep so to speak and check if a cover up is on the cards pardon the punning..
the aeroplane fuselages were cut up at the docks and dumped off the welsh coast i belive..this source came from an old merchant seaman..
all these things need verifying and triple checking..peoples memory fades and government records may or may not have been destroyed if the material was sensitive.
johno
this was rumour mill at halewood fords by the car workers who reckoned the engines were still buried to stimulate the car and transport industy..rather than have anything for free..
what other rubbish they lso buried needs investigating further,,burtonwood has been sold off to private developers i think now.
these are something that the scoop journalist at Nerve could look into or i may dig deep so to speak and check if a cover up is on the cards pardon the punning..
the aeroplane fuselages were cut up at the docks and dumped off the welsh coast i belive..this source came from an old merchant seaman..
all these things need verifying and triple checking..peoples memory fades and government records may or may not have been destroyed if the material was sensitive.
johno