A MARVELLOUS ARTICLE appears in this week’s Holderness Gazette commemorating the Zeppelin raid over Hedon on 22nd August 1917. Using material from local historian Brian Richardson, including a photo of the bomb-wrecked Primitive Methodist Chapel on Baxtergate, the Gazette article by Gina Hobbs covers the 95th anniversary of the town being bombed. If you don’t … Continue reading »
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95th Anniversary looms of Zeppelin attack!
ON WEDNESDAY 22nd AUGUST 2012 it is the 95th anniversary of the bombing raid on Hedon by a German Zeppelin. It was the first time that Hedon had experienced such a terrifying attack. The Zeppelin had been undetected in the night and it struck with no warning about 1am in the morning on 22nd August … Continue reading »
