It was quite the coincidence for a World War Two grenade to be found in Welshpool on VE Day on Friday. However, it's not the only one to have ended up in the town. In fact, fallen German aircraft were actually taken to and stored in the Mid Wales town during the war.

Jeff Hill, from Borfa Green, who has been researching military aircraft in the town for years, had one of these bombs too - before he donated it to the RAF Museum, where he volunteers.

"I was given one of these by a gentleman called Reg Cowey. He kept it on his desk for years and years," Jeff said.

Reg was the manager of the Midland Tar Distillers, which was based where Potters is now, and which stored German aircraft during the war, before being moved to RAF Monkmoor in Shrewsbury to be taken apart and melted down.

This was because another Welshpool company in the town, Aber Carriers, was given a contract by the government to salvage crashed aircraft.

This company, founded by Aberystwyth man Glyn Jenkins Jones, was actually based on Salop Road, where Camlas Vets is - the same road where one of these bombs was found in a shed on Friday.

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The aircraft Aber Carriers collected were from all over Mid Wales and even as far as Liverpool. "There was a lot of crashed aircrafts. Hundreds of them," Jeff said.

Jeff thinks the bombs likely came from the medium sized bomber aircraft called the Heinkel He 111, which fell in North Wales during the raid on Liverpool in around April 1941.

They're 1kg magnesium alloy bombs, filled with thermite; and there were thousands of them. They don't actually explode when they hit the ground, but instead reach incredibly high heat causing the whole thing to set on fire. Hundreds of them were dropped from containers in the aircraft and they were thought to be one of the most effective weapons used during the World War Two.