00:00This is a playground in Wooler, a town in Northern England.
00:03It is now being excavated, and the area is off-limits,
00:06as construction workers have discovered dozens of World War II-era bombs buried underneath.
00:12The playground was being renovated when the first two bombs were discovered,
00:15with county councillor Mark Mather saying,
00:17initially they were excited at the historical find,
00:20though the governing body wrote in a statement,
00:22quote,
00:22but it soon became apparent that the scale of the problem was far greater than anyone had anticipated.
00:27That's because after they found the first, they found more, and more,
00:31eventually uncovering more than 175 of the antique explosives.
00:36Luckily for excavators, the devices are practice bombs,
00:39however they are still dangerous as they still have an explosive charge,
00:43with the council's statement adding that they have been found with their fuse and content still intact,
00:47and the detonator, burster, and smoke filling in particular can still be potentially hazardous.
00:52The area was once a training ground for the Home Guard,
00:55a volunteer citizen militia,
00:56which was intended to fend off a potential German invasion during World War II.
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