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Great-grandpas airship and Zeppelins over London
Last year I wrote couple of blogs about a largely unrecognised element of the First World War story; the Zeppelin bombing raids over England and the competition to develop a British airship to rival the German Zeppelin. My focus was my great-grandfather’s attempts to persuade the War Office that his airship design would both … Continue reading
Categories: World War One
Tags: Airships; Zeppelins, Alfred John Liversedge, Earles Shipyard, H Rider Haggard, Jerry White, Zeppelin Nights
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Great-Grandpa’s Airship
I recently watched the Channel 4 documentary on the crash of the Hindenburg and thought it might be interesting to record my great-grandfather’s role in the development of airships during the First World War. Growing up the stories I heard about Alfred John Liversedge (AJL) from my great-aunts, his daughters, all seemed to describe an … Continue reading
Categories: Journeys, Strong Women
Tags: A J Balfour, Airship, Alfred John Liversedge, Earles Shipyard, Hindenberg, Winston Churchill
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