Cambridge Daily News 10 Dec 1962: Royal Show demolished

Royal Engineers spent an hour and a half in drenching rain preparing to demolish the last concrete base on the Royal Show site at Trumpington. They tunnelled holes into it, under it and around it and inserted twenty pounds of plastic explosives. Two men were sent to warn Addenbrooke's Hospital of an ear-splitting bang before the men took cover. But there was just a weak muffled ‘back-fire’ noise and only a few cracks in the base – not really worth stopping the trains on the nearby railway line. Two hours later came a very satisfying bang and the great concrete block was lifted out of the ground in a shower of smaller chunks and metal bolts.