Watch: The moment an iconic World War 2 Lancaster bomber flies over Staffordshire for VE Day 80

Dozens of people, including aerial enthusiasts, youngsters and families, gathered outside Perton Library in Staffordshire to see the Lancaster B1 PA474 make a flyover as part of the 80th VE Day celebrations on Saturday.

The bomber, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, is one of the only two remaining airworthy Lancaster Bombers out of the 7,377 that were built and was on a flight path that took it towards RAF Cosford.

On a clear and sunny day, the bomber came into view at about 1.25pm, with all eyes looking up to the sky and the sounds of the plane clearly heard at ground level as the plane flew over to rapturous applause from those watching.

The bomber then turned in the sky to perform a figure of eight, allowing those watching to take videos and photos as it flew past, before heading off towards RAF Cosford.

The spectacle of the occasion was one which left many of those in attendance thrilled at seeing a piece of history, including members of the Wolverhampton Astronomical society.

Treasurer Doug Bickley and vice-president Steve Wootton both said it had a marvellous occasion to be at.

Doug said: "Scott from the library had tried a year ago to book this flight and managed it, so we were just hoping for great weather as part of the VE Day celebrations.

"When you see the number of people here today, it's been absolutely marvellous to be here and we've actually done much better than Buckingham Palace, as they just had a flythrough, whereas we've had a figure of eight.

"There's only a few of those still flying and we had our fingers crossed today with the weather and with any technical issues, but the pilot rang the library and said all was ok, so it's been a great day."

Steve said: "It's been spectacular with the multiple flypast in a circle over the estate, which was fascinating and would have given so many people in the estate the chance to see it."

Ben Elwell had been taking photos on his camera of the flypast and said he'd loved the history of the event.

He said: "It's lovely to see these old planes which are so well maintained and available for the public to see after all these years.

"I did my best with the photos as I'm not very experienced with taking plane photos, but it was great to just have the experience."

The flypast had been a major event for Perton Library, with onsite supervisor Tara Spandrzyk saying how pleased she was to see so many people enjoying it.

She said: "I think to see this many people come out to see something so momentous, something which doesn't happen every day, is just wonderful and the amount of people has been fantastic.

"Even for someone like me, who isn't big on this sort of thing, I was actually quite emotional when it actually came over and the amount of people who were cheering and were emotional themselves was great.

"It's been a big draw for the library and for Perton itself and we're immensely proud that we managed to get it to happen today."