'Police told us we had to evacuate because of a live explosive... it was frightening'

'Frightened' residents have told of the moment police told them to evacuate over fears of a 'live explosive' on their street on Thursday (March 13).

Bomb disposal units and police taped off a residential street in Trafford and evacuated a number of properties after a 'grenade' was found. Police and the Explosives Ordnance Disposal Unit were called to Mainwood Road in Timperley following the incident at around 1.10pm.

A large cordon was put in place close to the junction with Nethercroft Road after officers had been called to reports of a possible hand grenade being found in a garden nearby.

The grenade, later confirmed to not be viable, was understood to have been an old hand grenade that had filled with water. The incident was stood down after a number of hours.

Local resident Dawn Andrews, 53, told of the moment police knocked on her door. She said: "I've had 2 police officers at my door. One was about 1.25 and then the other one was about an hour later.

"They weren't letting anybody in or out. They were saying make sure you stay at the back of the house. It was staying and waiting until they lifted the cordon. I just stayed here with the dogs. I am not going to leave them if god forbid anything did happen."

As Samantha Richardson, 57, who is retired, told the M.E.N: "They said to us that we had to be evacuated. It was a grenade that they had found in the garden of a house."

"They told us to go to the back of the house and then they told us to evacuate. Then my husband drove past the house and they'd all gone." It was a bit frightening, but I would rather have gotten out stayed in."

Libby Jennings, 50, who lives nearby said a number of homes near here were evacuated following the discovery. She said: "The police