In September 1941, a German bomb fell near Douglas on the Isle of Man. The sculptor Bryan Kneale, who lived in the town and has died aged 95, remembered it well.
His father owned a local newspaper, Mona’s Herald. Running to see what had caused the explosion, he returned carrying a piece of shrapnel for his 11-year-old son. “I thought I’d never seen anything so beautiful,” Kneale told Studio International in 2015. “I took it to school the next day and some swine stole it.”
