Unexploded bomb could lie beneath Olympics stadium in Stratford
THE Olympic Delivery Authority has insisted that its Stratford stadium is safe, amid claims that there could be an unexploded bomb lying beneath it.
According to Government records, a German bomb dropped in a tip on the exact site of the stadium just south of Leyton during the Blitz.
Records of bombings during the war state that a large hole was left in a rubbish shoot at the refuse site after an air-raid, but despite several searches throughout the 1940s, no bomb was uncovered there.
A report by weapons company BAE Systems for the Government in 2007, which was recently uncovered by a Stratford resident concluded that explosive material must lie beneath the site of the stadium because of how intense air raids in the area were during the war....
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According to Government records, a German bomb dropped in a tip on the exact site of the stadium just south of Leyton during the Blitz.
Records of bombings during the war state that a large hole was left in a rubbish shoot at the refuse site after an air-raid, but despite several searches throughout the 1940s, no bomb was uncovered there.
A report by weapons company BAE Systems for the Government in 2007, which was recently uncovered by a Stratford resident concluded that explosive material must lie beneath the site of the stadium because of how intense air raids in the area were during the war....