The unexploded bomb – the latest to emerge more than 75 years after ordnance rained down on the capital – lay on the site of a new block of flats. While army bomb disposal experts worked through Thursday night to make it safe, residents gathered at a church outside the exclusion zone. He added: “I can imagine what people in the war times must have felt.” More than 20,000 bombs fell on London in the Blitz, which began in September 1940 and reshaped several other cities. Blitzed, rebuilt and built again: what became of London's bomb sites? But most bombs or unexploded ordnance turn up on buildings sites.

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2017 15:00 UTC