Swanage Beach Explosion 1955

On the 13th of May, 1955, some 20 or more children descended on Swanage beach and found a mysterious tin. Sources Liberal England http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/11/five-schoolboys-were-killed-by-wartime.html Virtual Swanage. https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/things-to-do/education-resources/world-war-2-in-purbeck Swanage Pier Trust https://www.swanagepiertrust.com/timeline IWM https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/82090 Publications Parliament https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100317/debtext/100317-0008.htm https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100317/debtext/100317-0009.htm Purbeck Gazette https://www.purbeckgazette.co.uk/news/plaque-to-honour-school-boys-who-died-in-mine-accident-on-swanage-beach-70-years-on/ Swanage News https://www.swanage.news/tribute-planned-to-swanages-schoolboy-bomb-victims/ https://www.swanage.news/memorial-to-boys-killed-on-swanage-beach-unveiled/ BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8573916.stm Farnborugh https://www.farnborough-kent-parish.org.uk/parish_windows.html Music Lightless Dawn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/