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Walderslade Village

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Lutonman:
Was it Princes Charles Avenue?

Dave Smith:
castle261. Was the first hill that you refer to, to become Princes Avenue? All the way down to Luton & not metalled all the way until the 70's.

castle261:
That old Walderslade was part of our `playground, us `8 / 11` year olds
The first hill - nearest Luton had the bungalows on it - we visited the 2nd
one on the left at the bottom - a concrete base - then corigated iron walls
up wards. There were no houses on the right hand side - that we could see
(all woods ) - Chestnut Ave was a must in the autumn - Wayfield had not
been built on - Kitchener Ave - was our playground too (nearer home )
The half built houses were too tempting - happy days at Glencoe - too.

Archi93:

--- Quote from: Smiffy on May 09, 2020, 05:10:24 PM ---There must be a database somewhere that details the sites of all uxb's as they were (and still are) discovered. I don't know if this freely accessible or not - perhaps someone will know? My guess at the moment is that this one was found in the garden of a property in Snodhurst Avenue.

--- End quote ---
I wonder if the Royal Engineers Museum at Brompton has a database of UXB's as they were often involved in defusing them? One of their static exhibits shows the process involved in defusing such, with a steam pump that was used to inactivate them.

Archi93:
Well or cess pit on Walderslade bypass.
Some years ago they put in Walderslade bypass running from part way down Robin Hood Lane towards Walderslade Road, by passing the village itself.
When they were digging to put bypass road in, there was discovered a large red brick structure, beneath the old land surface, shaped a bit like a bell with its wider base down and narrower at top. They had cleaned away the earth to just leave the red bricks in situ. It would easily have fitted a man in to dig and line it.
It was circular and about 4 ft high. It was there for quite a while before they cleared it away to make way for the road.
You can still see where it was, as on the road surface opposite Robin Hood Surgery is a circular area of different type of tarmac, as if the road subsided and was patched up again. I thought it was a village well, but my friend now thinks it was a brick lined cess pit, where the liquid waste would drain away out of the bottom, and the solid waste would be removed either for the garden, or by Chatham Corporation. Does anyone have any photos of information about it please?

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