Wikipedia has an article on exploding houses in Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain https://en.wikipedi

Wikipedia has an article on exploding houses in Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_... (There is also an article on exploding houses in Ireland, but for entirely different reasons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Irish_country_houses_(1919%E2%80%931923) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Irish_country_h...