Homes have been evacuated after suspected “wartime ordnance” was unearthed at a property. Police and a bomb disposal unit are ...

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.

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 ...

Commissioned by the Government during the Blitz, the shelters were completed within 18 months, but only opened to regular Londoners in 1944 with the advent of the V-1 flying bomb. Capable of housing ...