You’ve just bought a new home and there’s still junk from the previous owner to be thrown out, so you begin, but then you find an artillery shell in the attic.
Shell in the Attic
by Martin Myall •
Tag Archive for unexploded
Antique Artillery Shell
by Martin Myall •
Unexploded ammunition from the Spanish Civil War, over 80 years ago is often coming to light, but a shell from the 1870s?
Marine Flares on Costa Beaches
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Guardia Civil Bomb Disposal Team, TEDAX, defused a marine flare that was found on Playa Granada on Wednesday.
Artillery Shell on Carchuna Beach
by Hugh MacArthur •
Bomb disposal experts have destroyed an explosive artefact that was found on Carchuna beach around around the middle of last month.
Unexploded Artillery Shell in Lujar
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Spanish Civil War concluded 75 years ago but every once in a while somebody finds an unexploded bomb or shell. This time it was in the Sierra de Lujar, above Gualchos.
Shell Shock
by David Darby •
Our British readers may already have seen this story… and for once, we are unable to say, “only in America.”
A woman was out for a walk in the beautiful Dorset countryside in the UK, when she spotted two men carrying what she thought were rolled up rugs or carpets on their shoulders.
However, on closer inspection they turned out to be a bit more dangerous than that. “I thought they were carrying rugs, but as they walked past, I saw they were enormous shells,” the unnamed woman told the Dorset Echo.
Dangerous Brick
by Editor •
In the old days, los cortijeros would build their homes with anything to hand – even with unexploded, civil-war shells, it would seem.