T8HANTS Posted 14 November , 2004 Share Posted 14 November , 2004 Here's one for all you boffins, I quote from "The Isle of Wight County Press", (the local news paper), for November 10th 1917; "The children of Bettesworth Road School mixed and infants' departments have collected some quarter of a ton of chestnuts for munitions purposes". The articles doesn't say if they were sweeet or horse chestnuts, but has anybody any idea what fiendish weapon of war can be derived from chestnuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pete Wood Posted 14 November , 2004 Share Posted 14 November , 2004 Chestnuts are a major source of glycerine. There is a picture of school children picking chestnuts for this purpose, in the book 'The Home Front In The Great War.' I'm off to make a bomb, now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T8HANTS Posted 14 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 14 November , 2004 No wonder my conkers go off with such a bang..........Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pete Wood Posted 14 November , 2004 Share Posted 14 November , 2004 Have a look at http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1267 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T8HANTS Posted 14 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 14 November , 2004 Well now we know........TA!!.........Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave ricketts Posted 17 November , 2004 Share Posted 17 November , 2004 I think that I saw somewhere that acorns were collected too. Was this for the same purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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