“Easy does it chaps. We don’t want to drop this one.”

The deadly device at the centre of attention in this week’s picture is believed to be none other than big Bertha, the bomb which dropped on Theatre Street, Norwich, during the last war.

With commendable consideration for local residents, she did not explode.

Instead Bertha made her home in a big hole beside the wall of St Stephen’s Church.

Until that is, a group of soldiers had the audacity to hoist her into the open again in September, 1940.

Bertha – as she was nicknamed by city people – was carted off on an old breakdown truck to Harford. The driver who made the perilous journey later recalled that his family was told they would be looked after if anything disastrous happened.