NAM.1972-08-67-1-65

Stereoscopic photograph, Gondola - from which bombs were dropped on London - of Zeppelin brought down off the Essex coast, nd. From a collection of one hundred and one stereoscopic photographs in box one of two entitled ‘The Great War’ including the official series. With stereoscopic viewer. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). British military personnel inspect the wreckage of a German airship. The first Zeppelin raid on Britain was at Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in January 1915. London was first attacked on 31 May 1915, when seven people were killed and £18,000 worth of damage caused. In the months that followed, fifty further Zeppelin raids took place and a blackout was imposed on the city.

World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), World War One, Home Front (1914-1918)