Ordinance Disposal

Ordinance disposal is another name for bomb disposal.  To do this job you have to have a really strong mind and a determination beyond what I can think of.  If you want to do it, go right ahead, I’ll watch from the background.  So why bring this up?  The Ministry of Defence holds very good records of all the ordinance it has disposed of in areas that have had bomb disposal.  Wouldn't it be great if we know what and where they have removed bombs from?  

Stumbling through the pil, I came across a few that asked about ordnance disposal taken from the 1960’s.  Initially, these were refused because there was too much of a time frame for them MoD to work though.  Look at this one, for example.  It look at disposal from Ferness from the 1960’s.  Again, this is a very long and very hard thing for the MoD to do. As they themselves stated it would take them 133 days to get it… A bit more than was expected.  However it does show us that they keep the records and that they can be accessed.

The this one was submitted.  It’s asking about ordinance disposed of in Dunwich Heath. It makes me wonder because this one was sent by post to the person who requested it (Would have loved to have seen map for that one.  The reasons` that I bring this up is because it it roughly the same request as the one above, but this one was a little bit easier to get hold of.  Which makes me wonder why.

Another one was submitted about RAF Oakington barracks.  This is a great hit because it shows the actual reports that were done.  I think the biggest difference between the ones above and this one is that it is a much smaller area and therefore can be got hold of.  It is pretty interesting to think that we would be able to get this sort of thing, isn't it?  

The main reasons that I bring this up to you lot is that it shows you that we can get this information but that you have to think about what you are asking.  Three different requests, three different responses. Amazing when you get down to it.  I would love to know about other ordinance and where it would be disposed of.  Then again, a lot of this information has been sent to the National Archives (as this one found out).  Amazing that we have the ability to be able to ask this sort of thing, isnt it?