Police say it could take up to 48 hours before residents in Bath are allowed home following the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at a school.
A 300-metre exclusion zone remains in place in the Lansdown area of the city - affecting hundreds of homes.
Tonight the device was made safe by experts and is expected to be removed from the site.
This 200kg bomb has lain under a former school site in Bath for more than 70 years - one of many which rained down on the city one weekend in 1942.
Residents were evacuated from their homes on Thursday as bomb disposal experts attempted to diffuse the Second World War device.
More than 400 people were killed in the Bath Blitz during World War II and scores of buildings destroyed.
"That history suddenly resurfaced and police weren't taking any chances", ITV News Correspondent Caron Bell reports.
As many as 1000 homes were evacuated last night after a World War Two bomb was discovered underneath a former school in Bath.
Local residents have been evacuated to a nearby racecourse after a WWII bomb was discovered at a school in Bath.