Photo: A V-1 pilotless flying bomb on its launching platform, circa 1944. The background has been retouched by German censors. (Getty Images) Throughout the war, the Nazis were secretly developing ...

But luckily this was a false alarm, and in fact the last bomb to hit the town was a ‘doodlebug’ – a V1 flying bomb – that was shot down at the bottom of Wishing Tree Road on 4 August 1944.