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)
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