Things one does not see anymore...

[raleighnut]

I was just searching for a hammer in my sister's garage and I found the bomb! It is looking a bit the worse for wear, but it is nearly 80 years old now so that is not surprising!

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You do know that's probably full of Phosphorus.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...839658&usg=AFQjCNFCBDc6ptRmgAJRnLt3FGvY37mr2Q

 

[screenman]

I was just searching for a hammer in my sister's garage and I found the bomb! It is looking a bit the worse for wear, but it is nearly 80 years old now so that is not surprising!

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Honest story, the wife phoned me at work to tell me she had found an old bike lamp in the very overgrown garden of a bungalow we had just purchased, she described as exactly the same as you have in your hand, 90minutes or so later the bomb disposal squad were here.

They seemed to think it had dropped out of a Lancaster as it took off or landed, we have an old airfield just outside of the village.

 

[shirokazan]

I was just searching for a hammer in my sister's garage and I found the bomb! It is looking a bit the worse for wear, but it is nearly 80 years old now so that is not surprising!

Lordy, I think I'm just about far enough away for it not to take out my windows should it go off. At least you'll make the front page of the local paper.

 

[Drago]

When I were a lad we'd have dismantled that for the explosives!

 

[midlife]

German incendiary....... !!!

 

[Drago]

That'd get a few quid on eBay!

Some info about your new hammer...

http://www.bombfuzecollectorsnet.com/page12.htm

 

[ColinJ]

For those of you worried that we are about to wreak havoc in Leighton Buzzard ... This is a picture of some of the bombs that my dad practised on before he was allowed to defuse incendiary bombs!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Kids playing British bulldog, skipping and other games on the roads where they live.

 

[lazybloke]

3-4 decades ago, the Scotcade catalogue was a wonder of modern technology. Radio alarm clocks and teasmaids!

 

[TVC]

I bet nobody has mentioned white dog poo yet.

 

[Salty seadog]

No sign of @CarlP recently......come back dear boy.

 

[gbb]

Can't find a photo or link but Walters or Burtons Potato Puffs , plain flavour, red and white packets I seem to remember

 

[Drago]

For those of you worried that we are about to wreak havoc in Leighton Buzzard ... This is a picture of some of the bombs that my dad practised on before he was allowed to defuse incendiary bombs!

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Leighton Buzzard? Good heavens, if that had gone off and flattened the town the damage might have cost as much as a tenner.

 

[shirokazan]

Leighton Buzzard? Good heavens, if that had gone off and flattened the town the damage might have cost as much as a tenner.

Said cheap boy from Hartwell.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Has anyone mentioned white egg shells yet?