Village of church and crater - Hanbury, Staffordshire
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Village of church and crater - Hanbury, Staffordshire
Image: © Martin Richard Phelan Taken: 14 Apr 2012
North west of Burton on Trent, Hanbury's church of St Werburgh holds many family memorials including a rare alabaster effigy and the busts of two very disapproving Puritan ladies. It also holds a memorial window to those who died in Britain's worst-ever explosion. On the 27th November 1944 at 11 am, a nearby RAF (Royal Air Force) bomb dump to the east of the village blew up, wiping a farm off the face of the Earth and taking with it 70 people. The Cock Inn has displays relating to the incident. The Crater is signposted and it is possible to visit it, although it's no longer possible to walk into and through it, since chain link fencing was placed around the perimeter. Time photo taken 12.25 pm BST (British Summer Time)
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Image Location
Latitude
52.848426
Longitude
-1.748277