Damage
Extracts from WW1 letter dated 4th November 1915 from David Henry Taylor in Balham, London to his sister Ginger (Ethel) Linn in USA.
“I have been round to look at some of the damage …. Then bomb in Chancery Lane fell in the road just outside Stone Buildings, by the Safe Deposit, smashed all the glass around, knocked lumps of the stonework off …. It has blown out all the glass on two sides of the building …. It cracked two of the walls… The explosion ripped the whole thing from end to end, leaving just the roof trusses bare.”
Zeppelins
Extracts from WW1 letter dated 4th November 1915 from David Henry Taylor in Balham, London to his sister Ginger (Ethel) Linn in USA.
“Earlier in the evening a passing man said to me, « Another Zep raid tonight » …. Then almost immediately two more booms, it struck me that it might be Zeps …. Then there was a burst of firing and I saw my beauty just coming from behind some trees. It was really a beautiful sight, a large cigar shaped bar of silver, floating along, shining in the light of search lights ….”