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At playtime we used to run round chasing one another, and we often used to jump over a wall in the schoolyard, and there was a good drop on the other side. And I remember I had just got over this wall, when there was an explosion. And when I came back, they were carrying this boy out, and there was a rare commotion about it. He had had a detonator, you know, what they fire the shots with in the pit. He'd been poking it to fit it onto his pencil and it had gone off and burnt his hand off. Reddick was the manager of number six pit and it was his son that had somehow got these detonators. It was quite a shock that.