21 April, 1915
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Collection of A. Taylor
The Illustrated War News
Photos. by Farrington Photo. Co.
Last Week's Zeppelin Raid on the East Coast: Damage Done By The Enemy Bombs at Lowestoft And At Malden
As we noted elsewhere, the Zeppelin raid on the east coast on the early morning of Friday, April 16 was a futile affair, almost as futile as the Taube attcck which took place in Kent early on the afteroon of the same day (when the ony victom was a blackbird)! In the Zeppelin attack, however, a fair amount of damage was done to property. The Zeppelin (Zeppelins) passed over Southwold, Blythburgh, Henhham Hall (Lord and Lady Stadbroke's residence, which is being used as a hospital), Holton, Halesworth, Wangford, Reydon, Wrentham, Covehithe, Kessingland and Lowestoft. In the case of the incindeary bombs dropped at Henham Hall, the inflammable material in these blazed up to a height of some fifteen feet; the other two bombs dropped there were explosive. The bombs dropped at Lowestoft and neighbourhood were three shrapnel and seven indendiary. One fell at the Great Eastern Yard, killing two horses, wrecking some sheds, and destroying five lorries and a parcel-cart. The chief damage was at a timber yard in Commercial Road, where the stacks were practically burnt out. The air-ship came withing forty-four miles of London. The first photograph on our first page shows a timber yard and saw-mills, which were set on fire by a bomb, at Lowestoft. No. 2 shows damaged houses in Spital Road, Maldon. No. 3 shows a Great Eastern Railway Signal Box, at Lowestoft slightly damaged; the fourth shows the hold made in a meadow, at Maldon, by one of the bombs; with soldiers standing in it. - [Photos. by Farrington Photo. Co.]
