BBC2 Timewatch – Zeppelin: The First Blitz

it was interesting, but the bloke digging up scraps and suggesting the RN kings crown WW2 button was German made me giggle

More please Mr BBC!!! 😉

Hear, hear!!!;) 😀

I thought it was a good programme too, well worth watching.
Now I always thought that the L-31 came down at Cuffley, The memorial is certainly there near the Station on Plough Hill .

Hi Dennis,

The airship which was brought down at Cuffley (behind the Plough Inn – is the pub still there??), was the wooden-framed Shutte-Lanz SL11, downed down by Lt. W. Leefe-Robinson, flying a BE2c, on 3 Sept. 1916. Leefe-Robinson was subsequently awarded a VC.

For more on this – plus some eminent forumites wearing silly costumes for a (different) TV reconstruction – check out www.biggles-biplane.com

I thought the Timewatch programme was excellent. Enough social history to keep non-airminded viewers watching and – as is clear from all these threads – enough for us to get our teeth into too!

More please Mr BBC!!! 😉

I thought it was a good programme too, well worth watching.
Now I always thought that the L-31 came down at Cuffley, The memorial is certainly there near the Station on Plough Hill .

i remember about an article in the hull daily mail about one of our museums in hull that had deactivated bombs from a zeppelin as an exibit,

Due to hitlers attempt at burning hull down, this very large and old museum to a couple of direct hits destroying it completely, 60 years later after the site was cleared and turned into a car park, and they found these zeppelin bombs, wich in turn caused E,O,D, to turn up beliving them to be of nazi origin and end up sealing part of the city, goes back to another thread about how safe is a U,X,B?

I saw the programme last night but found it very disappointing. In my view there was too much about the people involved and not nearly enough about the technological problems involved in shooting down Zeppelins.

If this same programme had been done by say the History Channel it would have been far superior.

Colin

I disagree.
As far as the witnesses were concerned I found them fascinating and extremely clear thinking when one considers their age.

My wife comes originally from Poplar and my Mother-in-law rang after the programme to tell us that she knew some of the families (later of course) who had lost infants in the school incident mentioned.
I thought the mix of archive film and witnesses worked together very well and the facts were accurately delivered.

If anything, it’s programmes like this which set the benchmark for other TV makers to follow and proves that the BBC can still do it.
A.

Very Disappointing

I saw the programme last night but found it very disappointing. In my view there was too much about the people involved and not nearly enough about the technological problems involved in shooting down Zeppelins.

If this same programme had been done by say the History Channel it would have been far superior.

Colin

The first offical raid by a German Zepplin was in January when the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth was bombed but what a lot of people dont know is that in Demember the pervious year a unknown German Type flew over Southend-on-Sea on a bombing mission and was sucsessfull in finding and delivering its payload on the town…

A handfull of rusty rivits!

I think this has been on before but well worth watching if like me for the first time didn’t realise Zepps were used as bombers. You can iirc see how the AAA gun came about.