Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
Gnomie, it was the site of the car wash. It used to be a garage. A man was digging out and breaking up an old Petrol Container ( the ones buried underground ) and a spark lit the fumes and he was blown to pieces. A next door neighbour of mine remembered it as the explosion was so loud AND he had bits of "shrapnel" ( for want of a better word ) all over his garden.
It happened around the 1970's.
Cheers hmtmaj



I knew my memory was not that bad

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