Tagged With: H Rider Haggard
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 – A Famous Supporter
Unlike his photographs very few of my great grandfather’s (Alfred John Liversedge) papers have survived. The one letter I have about the airship has done so because its writer would have impressed my great-aunts. In November 1915 H Rider Haggard wrote to thank their father for a letter and pamphlet he had sent him. He writes … Continue reading
Categories: How we write, Journeys
Tags: Airships; Zeppelins, Alfred John Liversedge, H Rider Haggard
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