Originally Posted by TSR2

pronounced Querner!!

My mate was blown up in the Abbeystead incident! he survived ,just, he had so many broken bones he was bleeding internally very severly, causing his BP to drop alarmingly. An ambulance that was being driven down the A6 to be sold at auction was diverted to Abbeystead and took him and 2 others to Lancaster Hospital thereby saving his life with minutes to spare, He with many from St Michaels were visiting the Abbeystead site to be convinced that the flooding in their village was not caused by water being diverted from the Lune to the Wyre,
They were inside the Pump house to witness the water being transferred, nothing happened for a long time, then my friend heard the telephone ring followed by an explosion, (it,s thought that the phone sparked causing ignition of the methane gas that had collected in the pipe under Quernmore which was pushed ahead of the incoming water,) I think 28 folk were killed in the disaster, He remembers the aftermath, people were drowning/screaming when the metal grate floor collapsed and they fell into the pit, others were burning in various parts of the shattered building, a giant concrete roof beam fell on him crushing many bones , the man he was talking to lay to his left, the beam had decapitated him! He said it was all surreal as though he was watching a film, I nearly went that night but changed my mind, mmmhhh