We left from the Alexandra park lake which is in the middle of Manchester itself. We went further down and we found the canal [where] we discovered the gun underneath a big bridge.

My husband Douglas and my two children, they tend to go every weekend and have been doing it roughly now for about two months.

It was my first time on that weekend and we came across the guns – crazy really. Douglas has never found anything before like this but he has fished out a few items.