This volume of Dickens contains a piece of shrapnel from a V1 flying bomb, or doodle-bug,that fell on Landseer Close, Edgware in August 1944.The shrapnel entered the spine and is embedded in the book.

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.