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I suspect that the plastic Zeppelin hanging at the Neville Arms is supposed to be hovering, but one of the support wires looks to have snapped.
So it's nose down in a sort of 'defeated' manner. True irony after all these years. |
Hanging down like that, it looks to me more like a bomb than a Zeppelin.
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No doubt you will eventually get to the daylight air raid by several fixed-wing Gothas on 13 June 1917, which killed 162, including a direct hit on a primary school in Poplar.
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the link to the "blurry" map seems to be broken.
dg writes: Fixed, thanks. Honest. From the other map, it would seem that my brother-in-law's house is close to midway between the first two bombs. |
Interesting post dg - thank you.
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Great post DG. Fascinating stuff. Thank you.
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Fascinating. My Nan lived in the next street from Ivy Street, and would have been 11 at the time. Just a few yards to the west and I might not have been here!!
Funny she never mentioned it though - not that anyone ever thought to ask! Like you say, air raids were all about WW2, and they'd moved as far away from Hoxton as possible by then - well NW London, where they had a whole other set of near misses instead! |
Nevill Road is in Stoke Newington. The area of Shacklewell is just north of Dalston and to the east of Stoke Newington Road. GoogleEarth has it mis-placed.
dg writes: Noted, thanks. |
First Deaths - comparing a large-scale OS map from 1954 suggests that No.33 was on the east side of Cowper Rd just north of the present Bennett Rd - that is in the SW corner of Butterfield Park playground. A good place for a plaque?
dg writes: There's a thick hedge in the way, but something might go on the railings in front. |
I remember seeing a Cinema film on TV years ago that that was about Zeppelins bombing, don't know where through. I remember that the airship was lost in cloud and a crew member was lowered in a basket in get some idea of where the airship was. I can't remember what happened, it must have been 40 odd years ago.
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This is really good! There's a tower block on the corner of Balls Pond Road and Mildmay Road that I had always though was the site of the first zeppelin bombing. I wasn't far out!
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It's Christian Street by the way.
dg writes: also fixed, thanks. |
Excellent post, presenting the timeline of the bombing well, with lots of detail as usual.
Ian Castle's website is fascinating. I went to his talk on the Zeppelin raids, at Ally Pally recently. It was attended by a handful of people who seemed very knowledgeable and were dedicated enough to pay £7.70. It's perhaps a pity that the presentation wasn't available in a larger room at a lower price, so that many more people could have attended. |
Thanks DG, I never knew that I shared my birthday with this anniversary!
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anyone know where Elsie & Elizabeth Leggett were buried?
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