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 »
Terror from the sky!
AN EXPLOSION WOKE RESIDENTS in the early hours of 22nd August 1917. Windows rattled, rafters creaked and the ground shook. Hedon was the victim of an air raid by a Zeppelin! The war time bombing, 93 years ago today, was the first time that Hedon had experienced such a terrifying attack. The deadly airships had … Continue reading »
