Couple discover huge World War II air raid shelter in their garden.
After tending to the flower bed in their back garden for many years, little did Les and Sheila Holmes know of what really lay beneath. But following excavation work, the couple were stunned to find a long-lost Second World War air raid shelter hidden under their flowers. Relatives of the couple excavated 70 tonnes of earth to reveal the 6ft deep bunker.
The 13ft x 5ft hole has now swallowed up most of their tiny back garden in Street, Somerset. Mr Holmes, 73, and his 72-year-old wife now believe the tin-roofed bomb shelter was built after a local milk factory was bombed by the Nazis.
The family - led by William Foxwell - moved into the stone cottage in 1962. Their niece Estelle Sparks and her partner Darren Mapstone, both 40, carried out the back-breaking excavation work.
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