It is believed the area where the playground was initially built was used as a Home Guard training ground and the bombs were buried at the end of the war.

Fragments of a World War Two bomb that was discovered in a housing development in Newtownards in August 2024 are now on display at a museum in Belfast. Hundreds of families had to leave their ...

Unexploded bombs from World War II have detonated without warning before. Last October, a bomb dropped by the U.S. during the war exploded at an airport in Japan, causing a large crater on a runway.