Bomb in Sefton Park lake.AN UNEXPLODED WWII WWII abbr. World War II WWII World War Two bomb forced police to cordon off Verb 1. cordon off - divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred" rope in, rope off inclose, shut in, close in, enclose - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" Sefton Park last night after it had lain hidden underwater for nearly 70 years. Drainage work at the park had revealed the silt of the lake bed and it was there that a couple out walking in the park spotted the bomb just before 6pm on Sunday. Six police vehicles arrived at the Aigburth Drive entrance of the park and officers set up a 100m blast cordon around the lake and taped off the gates to the public. Military bomb experts from the Explosive Ordnance Department (EOD EOD abbreviation for every other day; used in medical records. ) in Chester arrived at about 8pm and within five minutes had taken the device, probably a German bomb, away while crowds of passers-by looked on. Lorna Lacey, from Aigburth, was walking her Yorkshire Terrier Yorkshire terrier, breed of small, spirited toy dog originated and developed in Yorkshire, England, in the mid-19th cent. It stands about 9 in. (22.8 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 4 to 7 lb (1.8–3.2 kg). Dinky with sons Josh and Aaron. She said: "We were just out walking in Sefton Park. "Two eagle-eyed people were there looking in the lake and saying there was a bomb in there. It was a man and a lady and they were saying they had seen the same type of bomb in a museum in Wales and that they thought the pin was still in it. "They called two police officers and they all had a good look at it and then decided it was a bomb and then they called about 10 more. "Then they made everyone go back to a safe distance. "It should have exploded on impact, but it must have got stuck in the silt instead. "I was really impressed with the couple who spotted the bomb and even more impressed they recognised it as the same bomb they had seen in a museum." Insp Mike Jarman said: "It was an unexploded ordnance that was stable enough to be transported. The EOD have taken it away and they're going to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose it themselves. "They said they couldn't do anything with it here and that they'd dealt with this type of device before. "Because it was a small device and it was in the middle of the lake, we didn't feel the need to evacuate anybody. "Now everything is open again." The May Blitz of 1941 saw 681 German planes drop 870 tonnes of high explosives and over 112,000 incendiaries on Liverpool, killing over 1,700 people and making around 76,000 homeless. CAPTION(S): Police at the lakeside in Sefton Park yesterday, after the bomb was discovered Picture: JASON ROBERTS |
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