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Thought I'd share this as I don't remember if I have done before, it's a cool bit of a bomb! It's a piece of an incendiary bomb that fell near New Bradwell in WW2 it was given to my father by an old man who's house he was clearing for his business Sellit & Soon (then Milton Keynes' only 2nd hand shop) in 1973. Obviously there is no proof other than one man's word but it IS an actual piece of shrapnel which may be a part of one of the few bombs to ever fall on MK, I keep it in an old chocolate tin.
- My dad brought a bag of WW2 goodies in a hessian bag to our house from my great grandad. Shrapnel, nazi buttons, bits and pieces...microkorg
- Including a hollow body of a UK grenade, and an in-tact Nazi grenade - with transport cap intact.microkorg
- WIth the cap in-tact I didn't know if it had explosive or whatever in there. Had it been opened since WW2? I think I remembered playing with it as a kid but wasmicrokorg
- still a bit concerned about having it kicking about the house. So put it in back garden between shed and wall and phoned the police.microkorg
- Within the hour I had Police and Army Bomb Disposal unit round at the house. Neighbours curtains twitching.microkorg
- They told all neighbours to stay away from windows in case there was explosion.
One guy just went behind the wall with a screwdriver and tweaked it open.microkorg - Ended up being empty and all safe. Got a police number to keep with the item in case it ever gets reported again, its been proven to be safe.microkorg
- Some of the stories the bomb guys were telling were nuts. Some kids out walking on school trip found a live grenade, took it back to the school. : /microkorg
- It's weird because when I read your palm it says, "Dud is bomb".canoe