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Sunday, 29 May 2022

The Fauld Crater

 



An interesting account of a fairly recent visit to the Fauld Crater including aerial views taken with a drone. I was surprised to see how much of it is now obscured by a dense covering of trees and bushes.
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4 comments:

  1. The Jannie29 May 2022 at 21:14

    Fascinating and tragic. Perhaps a manifestation of "familiarity breeds contempt" on the part of two unfortunate armourers with horrendous results for so many.

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  2. Sam Vega29 May 2022 at 22:36

    Fascinating stuff. I'd never heard of this disaster before. For an interesting recent discussion on regrowth of vegetation, this is interesting:

    https://www.timworstall.com/2022/05/so-the-amazon-is-all-secondary-growth-forest-then-is-it/

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  3. dearieme30 May 2022 at 12:20

    Disasters fade from memory surprisingly quickly. How many know this story?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintinshill_rail_disaster

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  4. A K Haart30 May 2022 at 16:08

    Jannie - I wonder if they had time to think "oops".

    Sam - it is interesting and I'm sure most of us have seen examples. On a vastly smaller scale, one of our walks takes us past a BMW which has been parked in the same place for several years. Even that is already being invaded by vegetation.

    dearieme - they do fade from memory surprisingly quickly. I've never heard of that one.

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