A waste transfer station was rapidly evacuated last month after an unexploded bomb from World War II was discovered by workers on the site.
The shell, which was spotted poking out of a pile of aggregate, was found at Tintagel House Port Waste Transfer Station in Cornwall Drive, Orpington.
Workers fled the site and the bomb squad were then called in to deal with the unnerving discovery.
The bomb was promptly disarmed and removed from the site. The area was then declared safe by the bomb squad, allowing the workers to return to their normal duties just one hour after the evacuation.
It took decades to be discovered and less than an hour to be destroyed. It sounds a bit like a contestant on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’!
