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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.
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.
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.
Great post DG. Fascinating stuff. Thank you.
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.
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!
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!
anyone know where Elsie & Elizabeth Leggett were buried?










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