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Saturday, 31 January 2026

Remembering the Zeppelin Raid on Loughborough

I recently picked up what looked like it could be an interesting book from a second-hand shop. It was a bound copy of some photocopied pages of a series of poems, written by someone called Laura Jones. What caught my attention was that the poems seemed to all relate to the period around the First World War, and had titles like ‘The Call to Arms’, ‘Our Brave Jack Tars’, and ‘A Soldier’s Death’. But, the poem which stood out to me was the one called ‘Lines on the Zeppelin Raid’.

So who was Laura Jones? From the little information I have been able to piece together, it seems Laura was named Marianna Laura Mears, and her birth was recorded in the first quarter of 1866, at Burton-on-Trent. Her parents were William, a banking clerk, and Mary (possibly nee Brown), and her siblings included Horace, Louisa, and Samuel. Sadly, William died in 1873, leaving somewhere between £2,000 and £4,000, and Mary, his wife died only two years later in 1875. At the time, Marianna Laura was only aged 9, and it is said she was then cared for by an uncle, who placed her in a boarding school, which happened to be at 88 Regent Road, Leicester, houses which I believe were originally built to house railways workers. [They are still standing, but are set back of Regent Road, behind a car park for Regent House, and the pedestrian access is off West Street].

In 1884 Marianna Laura married William Henry Jones. How they met, I have no idea! William was four years older than Marianna Laura, and was born in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, in what was then Montgomeryshire, now Powys. They first made their home in Llandinio, at a farm called New Crosswood, and together raised five children. It is said they moved to Thrussington, before setting up a more permanent home at 131 Cossington Road, Sileby, where William was a watchmaker and jeweller. William died in 1928, and it’s possible that Marianna Laura moved to live with her daughter and son-in-law on Churchill Road, Gloucester, as she appears here in the electoral registers for 1935-1937, and on the 1939 Register. Marianna Laura’s death in 1946 was published in the 'Leicester Mercury', the report implying that she was living at 131 Cossington Road, Sileby.

So, what of the poems? As well as appearing in the photocopied pages I unearthed in the second-hand shop, it appears the poems were published under the title ‘A Selection of War-Time Rhymes’, composed by L. Jones, Sileby Leicestershire. It was published by Topping and Sons, Printers and Stationers, Loughborough. The volume of poetry is not dated, but is clearly post-1916, and from the name of the publishers, would have been published pre-1928, as by then the business was known as Toppings Ltd., although was still based at 1 Wood Gate (listed as 1 Leicester Road in 1892, but probably the same site).

As today is the anniversary of the dropping of the Zeppelin bombs on Loughborough, and the subsequent deaths of ten people, here is the poem in full:

Lines on the Zeppelin Raid

The day was ended; o’er the earth

The peaceful night had crept,

And toil-worn hands were resting,

While little children slept.

A monster glided through the air,

A huge, ungainly shape;

Freighted with death for hapless ones

Which they could not escape.

A Zeppelin! The cry went forth

And even as ‘twas heard,

Bomb followed bomb, from murderous hands;

The stoutest hear was stirred.

Hovering o-erhead like birds of prey,

The Huns with fiendish haste,

Hurled forth with glee, their deadly store,

And hearth, and home laid waste.

A babe, killed in its mother’s arms,

Two lovers, hand in hand;

A bride and groom just newly wed,

A truly martyred band.

A lady, too, on mission work,

God’s messenger of grace;

Was killed while speaking, now she serves

Her master face to face.

Can we such ruthless deeds condone?

No; rather will we go

To the last man; fired with new zeal

And fight the treacherous foe.

For right is might, and God will help

Our cause to win the day.

May free born Britons never live

To cringe ‘neath German sway.

Composed by Laura Jones

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Sunday, 2 February 2025

How Did We Hear about the Zeppelin Raid on the Town?

On the evening of Monday 31st January 1916, a series of bombs were dropped from a Zeppelin airship, in various locations in the Midlands, including in Loughborough, To commemorate this tragic event, tonight's blogpost shares a couple of newspaper reports which appeared soon after the devastation occurred. Please note, this is a word-for-word transcription of contemporaneous newspaper coverage. I have added one section break, simply to make the reading of the text a little easier. Not surprisingly, the first report of the evening's event appeared the very next day ...

The Leicester Mail of Tuesday February 1, 1916, carried the following front page heading:

GREAT AIR RAID ON THE MIDLANDS.

FLEET OF ZEPPELINS.

BOMBARDMENT BY “SIX OR SEVEN” AIRSHIPS.

ATTACK ON EAST, NORTH-EAST, AND MIDLANDS.

FIRST OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

There was a big Zeppelin raid on the Midland Counties last night, and judging by the number of airships which took part, it was one of the biggest air raids of the war. Full particulars are not yet to hand. The only official announcement yet available is as follows:

PRESS BUREAU, Tuesday, 1.40am

The following announcement has been received from the War Office:

A Zeppelin raid, by six or seven airships, took place last night over the Eastern North-Eastern, and Midland Counties.

A number of bombs were dropped, but up to the present no considerable damage has been reported.

The Press Bureau add that a further statement will be issued as soon as practicable, In the meantime it is not permissible to publish any details which may be known to us unofficially.

Last night’s was the first raid on the Midland area, and it caused a great sensation, which did not subside until after midnight.”

The following day, the Leicester Mail of Wednesday 2 February 1916, carried the following piece, on page 2:

“THE ZEPPELIN RAID.

Last evening the War Office published further reports of the Zeppelin air raid of Monday night. These were followed at midnight by the German official version, and it is interesting to compare these closely. Two points afford food for reflection. One is that Monday night’s raid was the most ambitious yet effected by the enemy. The other that the performance fell far short of the programme laid down by the officers in charge of the Zeppelins. According to our War Office reports six or seven airships crossed the Channel early on Monday evening. After reaching the East Coast, the Zeppelins steered various courses and, though hampered by the mist, covered a larger area than on any previous occasion. They dropped bombs in Lincolnshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk, the number of bombs being estimated at 220. Except in ‘one part of Staffordshire’ says the official report, ‘the material damage was not considerable, and in no case was any military damage caused.’ The casualty list, however, is a long one – 54 persons being killed and 67 injured, the longest list of any raid to date, except that on the Eastern Counties and London last October.

The Berlin official account is in the exaggerated terms to which we have become accustomed. The only explanation that occurs to us on reading it is that it was ‘written up’ from the programme and prepared in advance, instead of from the records of actual achievement. In no other way can we account for the statement about the damage to docks and harbours at Liverpool, Birkenhead, and to factories, foundries, and smelting furnaces at Nottingham and Sheffield, and on the Humber. The rigorous censorship which the Government maintains, prevents our pressing this argument by referring to unofficial messages which have reached us, but we can hardly be accused of travelling outside the official versions in pointing out that Liverpool and Birkenhead lie some distance from Staffordshire, and neither Sheffield nor Nottingham can be included in the counties mentioned in the War Office despatch.

It would be folly, however, to ignore the obvious fact that Monday night’s air raid has brought the war close to our own doors. Up to this week there were thousands of people in Leicestershire and other Midland Counties who held the view that Zeppelins could not reach the centre of England. These critics expressed that opinion with marked confidence, and denounced the lighting restrictions as the orders of nervous officials. The wisdom of the authorities is now justified. It is demonstrated that the German airships can travel far afield in England, though when they get into [the] Midland Counties they have to drop bombs at random and are often mistaken as to where they have been, or what damage they have inflicted. For ourselves we never shared the view that the Midland Counties could rely on immunity from air raids. The chief element of disappointment which we experience is the news from Berlin – not challenged in our War Office report – that the Zeppelins ‘returned safely.’ [1]

On another point we feel bound to pen a protest, and that is against the War Office policy of suppressing all stories of the Zeppelin raid. A rigid censorship of published reports is necessary and wise, but entire suppression is another matter. Germany can only defend her policy of Zeppelin raids on unfortified towns by two arguments. One is that the airships inflict serious damage of a military value. The other that the raids conceived in ‘frightfulness’ produce a panic amongst the civilian population calculated to create a demand for stopping the war. We know that in both these directions Germany has failed – and failed egregiously.

But this view is not held in Berlin, nor in neutral countries. It is not likely to be held while the German versions are met only by the bald and cold communiques issued by the War office. The Press of this country has loyally obeyed the Censor, and will obey him, yet a grave responsibility rests on the Government if the present rules are to be maintained in their integrity. It is a truism that nothing should be published likely to help the enemy in his future visits. But though we conform to the orders for entire suppression our conviction is deep that they are a mistake. To tell our own people the truth would neither make them nervous nor craven hearted. To tell neutral countries how trifling is the damage of military importance, but how terribly non-combatants, and women and children have suffered, would deepen the indignation against German methods and increase their sympathy with the Allied cause.”

It would be another couple of days before more information about the Zeppelin raid on Loughborough was published in the newspapers. On Friday 4 February, 1916, the Loughborough Echo published a reasonably lengthy report about the raid, about the injured people, and about the inquest held on those people who died. Names were not given, but were listed in the article:

“The sex and age of the deceased were as follows:

Man aged 49 ½

Married woman aged 49

Man aged 51

Single woman aged 25

Married woman aged 42

Married woman aged 44

Youth aged 18

Girl aged 16

Married woman aged 29

Man aged 27”

Please, if you can, make a trip to the underside of the stairway off The Rushes, where you can see a memorial plaque, which names and commemorates all those who died. The plaque was installed on the 100th anniversary of the Zeppelin raid, and the adjacent information board was installed more recently.

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[1] For an account of what happened to L20 which was the airship which attacked Loughborough, please see a guest post from expert Ian Castle, on this blog. There are many more posts on this blog about the Zeppelin raid which you can find my using the search facility, or by clicking on the appropriate tag - although please note, these features are only available on the web version of this blog.

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Wednesday, 31 January 2024

The Zeppelin raid of 1916

I could not let today go by without some small commemoration of the night of the Zeppelin raid on Loughborough - 31st January 1916 - which killed ten people and injured a further twelve.

In 2016 there was a commemoration service in The Rushes, and a plaque was unveiled on which those who died are memorialised. In the past couple of years, this memorial has been augmented with an information board, giving the plaque a bit more context.

You can find plenty of information about the Zeppelin raid scattered across this blog. And do look out for another Zeppelin-related walk scheduled for September 2024!

So, back in 2020, a friend wrote a guest post for the blog which discussed what eventually happened to the Zeppelin L20 .

Also, over the years I have written a number of posts about the raids; here are some of them:

Account of the community play which covered so many different aspects of the attacks.

What happened to some who survived their injuries

The background story of Josiah Gilbert, a shopkeeper on Empress Road

The story of Josiah Gilbert – Part 1

And Part 2

A virtual walk around the sites directly affected by the Zeppelin bombs

A guided walk led by a friend

A walk around the sites on the 100th anniversary

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Sunday, 31 January 2021

Loughborough Zeppelin Attack Anniversary

The story of the Zeppelin raid on Loughborough, which took place on the night of 31st January 1916, and took the town and its inhabitants by surprise, is well-documented, both on this site (1) and elsewhere. The fate of the Captain of L20 was also covered in a post on this blog in February last year, written by Zeppelin raid expert, Ian Castle. But what of some of the people who were injured in the raid, but survived, and what further news came to light after the raid?

Joseph Walter Page, whose wife and two children had been killed on Empress Road when the Zeppelin bomb descended onto the street, took out a lawsuit against the Crown in November 1929, following a petition to George V the previous year. He was seeking compensation of £6,868 for the loss of his family and his family home. He had initially received the sum of £19 in compensation, and in 1918 had claimed £1,500, but this had never been paid to him.

In January 1931, Mr Albert Edward Bowler, organist and choirmaster at Wood Gate Baptist church for 28 years, had the following memory of the 1916 Zeppelin attack on Loughborough. At the time of the Zeppelin raid, he had a shop on Empress Road selling ‘smallware’, i.e., items of haberdashery, like braid, or tape, and he was witness to the accidental death of Mr Josiah Gilbert, and Mrs Page and her two children, as well as receiving a number of wounds himself.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Askew was injured by a Zeppelin bomb when she was returning home from Caldwell’s hosiery factory on Church Gate, with some others of the workers. Her friend, Miss Ethel Higgs was killed, but two other workers, Miss Woodcock, and Miss Weston, escaped with lesser injuries than Miss Askew herself for her leg was shattered in the incident and she was thereafter unable to work and earn enough money to look after her widowed mother and her disabled sister. In mid-1917, Miss Mary Elizabeth Askew married Gerald Lovatt. In 1932 She received £69 compensation from a government fund of about £40,000,000 (2).

In the biography of Arthur Edward Shepherd, he suggests that at some point a further Zeppelin bomb was found in the canal, quite some time after the event of 31st January 1916. A comprehensive search of the local newspapers hasn’t thrown up anything, however, in January 1936, a live Zeppelin bomb was found in a nearby village. 20 years after the dropping of the bombs, a champion hedge-cutter by the name of Mr Grewcock - who had actually won 89 hedge-cutting contests – along with his fellow hedge-cutter, Mr Ison, both from Market Bosworth, were employed by Mr Burrows, who owned Cropston House Farm, to trim some hedges in a field called The Dumples (3), on Mr Burrows’ farm.

Using heavy hedge-cutting knives to do the work, the two men then cleared up the debris and made a fire. It was while they were watching the fire burn well that they spotted a long metal object lying under the remaining hedge, which they recognised as a German bomb. They carefully picked it up and carried it away from the source of the fire. It was clearly an unexploded bomb, and Mr Grewcock was of the opinion that it was one that had fallen into the canal at Loughborough during the Zeppelin raid of 1916.

So, the bomb was found in Cropston, and the two hedge-cutters handed it over to David Thomas, the police constable for Newton Linford, who took it away carefully. It was eventually taken to the Leicestershire police headquarters, and perhaps ended up at the Glen Parva depot of the Leicestershire Regiment, where I presume it was defused.

January 1941 was the 25th anniversary of the falling of the Zeppelin bombs on Loughborough, and a reporter wrote in the Leicester Chronicle of 8 February 1841 on how the event was initially reported in the newspapers and how reports changed over time. So, for example, initially, there was no mention made of any location for the attacks, more specific than The Midlands, but within a day or two reports were beginning to include the work ‘Leicestershire’. On the third day, reports were using the phrase ‘The Great Raid’, a phrase which continued to be used until reports of the event began to tail off – which took about a week.

On 31st January 2016, the centenary of the Zeppelin raid was commemorated through a number of events taking place in the town, which included a guided walk from the Carillon, to Orchard Street, where the first bomb fell in the yard of what was then the pub called the Crown and Cushion; to The Rushes, where the second bomb landed; and down to Empress Road, where the third bomb fell on a field close to Thomas Street, and the final bomb landed close to the Herbert Morris factory. This was followed in the evening by the unveiling of a new memorial plaque on The Rushes at the bottom of the stairs that leads up to The Rushes shopping area.

The granite cross in the middle of the road called The Rushes

The plaque close to the Herbert Morris factory on Empress Road.

Taking part in the guided walk on the morning of 31st January 2016

The memorial plaque on The Rushes, unveiled on 31st January 2016

(1) A guided walk, a Commemorative Walk 2016, other Commemorative Events 2016, The Story of Josiah Gilbert Part 1 and Part 2, WW1 and the Zeppelin Raids

(2) The report is difficult to read, but it is probably £40,000,000 given that another report had suggested the total compensation likely to be paid out could reach £44,000,000.

(3) The Dumples is an ancient path in Anstey that leads from The Martin High School on Links Road, to Cropston.

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 31 January 2021

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Dyer, Lynne (2021). Loughborough Zeppelin attack anniversary. Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2021/01/loughborough-zeppelin-attack-anniversary.html [Accessed 31 January 2021]

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So Who Was Josiah Gilbert Pt 2

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As we learned in part 1 of the story of Josiah Gilbert, he was a corner shopkeeper.

The area close to Empress Road had grown up from about 1888 when Queen Street was developed and named in honour of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee which was in 1887. It is possible that Empress Road itself was built to celebrate Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and named Empress Road as Queen Victoria had been Empress for 20 years, since 1877. Of the houses that remain, the earliest seem to date from 1900 and these are in fact nos.73, 75 and the corner shop at no.77.

The 1911 census return lists no inhabitants of no.75, but living in no.73 are the 12 members of the Hanford family, all employed in the hosiery and elastic webbing industry.

The corner shop is being run by married couple, Fred and Clara Spencer: Clara is the grocer and general dealer, and Fred, the grocer's assistant. Given that Josiah Gilbert and wife Sarah were both working at their shop on Main Street, Markfield on the 1911 census return, it is reasonable to suppose that they continued to do so when taking on the corner shop on Empress Road, and probable that son, William Josiah Handley Gilbert was also helping in the shop.

The corner shop would have been a vital part of the neighbourhood around Empress Road, and the everyday essentials that they sold to the locals, who would have popped in most days, would have been very affordable. Many of the goods on sale would not have been pre-packaged, so there was a lot of weighing out - of things like tea, sugar, butter, dried fruit and rice - and packing to do. If the shop sold tobacco, this would have come in a hard rope-like coil that would need to be cut to size; salt would have come in bars, and would need to be sawn to the required size; and soap came in half-yard lengths!

The shop might also have sold meat, as well as homemade jams, bread, and tartlets, cooked on the premises. It's also quite possible that the corner shop sold patented medicines, as well as other, unregulated medicines.

When Josiah Gilbert took over the corner shop in 1914, it was a boom time for such premises as his, but this would soon come to an abrupt halt as the First World War took hold. Britain was heavily reliant on imported foodstuffs, and these supplies suffered, such that by 1917, starvation was a distinct possibility amongst the population. As the war progressed, so the corner shop shelved emptied and what the shopkeeper did have for sale became more and more expensive.

However ...

Today is the anniversary of a tragic event in Loughborough. Here is the second part of the Story of Josiah Gilbert.

Tune in again at 9pm today for other, related stories

You can find the first part of the story here.

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 31 January 2021

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So Who Was Josiah Gilbert Pt 1

Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of a tragic event in Loughborough. Here is the first part of the Story of Josiah Gilbert.

Tune in again at 8pm today for part 2.

And at 9pm today for other, related stories.

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 31 January 2021

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Dyer, Lynne (2021). So Who Was Josiah Gilbert Pt 1. Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2021/01/so-who-was-josiah-gilbert-pt-1.html [Accessed 31 January 2021]

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Sunday, 22 December 2019

The Carillon - a perfect setting

Well, there's nothing quite like a good book launch, and this weekend I've been lucky enough to go along to a really exciting one!

This particular book has been a long time in the making - and there's nowt wrong with that! I'm a great believer in things happening for a reason and that every experience leads to the next, so perhaps without completing an MA in Creative Writing at Loughborough University in 2011, and without following that up with a PhD, this book might not have happened.

Karen signing copies of her new book

For her PhD, the author, Dr Karen Ette, studied and investigated modern English creative writing, and her research focused particularly on literature of the 'Great War', so is it really surprising that the novel she has now published is based on original and unpublished letters and diaries of David Adcock, a soldier in the Leicestershire Regiment (later the Royal Leicestershire Regiment), members of whom were called The Tigers.

Of course, I haven't yet had time to read this lovely book, but the synopsis hints at everything a good read should do, and the cover is beautifully designed, and evocative of the period.

The appealing front cover of Karen's book ...

... continues onto the back cover!

There's a queue building ...

Loughborough's Carillon in Queen's Park

So, the carillon was the perfect setting in which to launch this book, surrounded by artifacts from the First World War, and to the melodious sound of the carillon being played by the Borough Carilloneur, Caroline Sharpe.

Memories of Loughborough's war horse, Songster, were evoked as the original marker for his grave was on display (a new one was made by a member of staff at the university, and placed at his grave at a memorial service in June 2018). This also reminded me about another writer friend, Alison Mott, whose children's book called 'Songster Loughborough's own war horse' was released in October 2018, and was beautifully illustrated by Liz Waddell.

Also on display in the carillon was a model of a Zeppelin, rather like the one which dropped its bombs on Loughborough during the evening of 31st January 1916. Hmm, and that reminds me that another writer friend, Ian Castle, has written several books about the Zeppelin raids, and I'm pretty confident that 'The First Blitz in 100 Objects', which will be published in February 2020, will contain something of interest to the people of Loughborough!

A model Zeppelin

Display case containing information on the Zeppelin raid (1)

Display case containing information on the Zeppelin raid (2)

Display case containing information on the Zeppelin raid (3)

Many of my other friends have written books related to Loughborough too, including Bill Wells ('Billy's Book of Loughborough Boozers', to name but one of the many pub books he's written!), whom I first met in 2013; Ian Porter, who wrote 'Last of the Luddites'; Dennis Powdrill who wrote about his experience of working at Cottons for many years ('Cotton's of Loughborough') and Derrick Hewitt, who has now completed the second book in his series about the Cartwright and Warner, hosiers, called 'Cartwright and Warner'. I do hope no-one is offended if they've written a book about Loughborough, but I haven't mentioned them above

Just in case you are interested in yet more books about Loughborough, 'Loughborough in 50 Buildings' and 'Secret Loughborough' are both available in Loughborough's Waterstones and W H Smith, and online from Amazon, and other good booksellers, including the publishers. Copies will also soon be available from the Local and Family History Centre in the public library.

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Saturday, 31 January 2026

Remembering the Zeppelin Raid on Loughborough

Sunday, 2 February 2025

How Did We Hear about the Zeppelin Raid on the Town?

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

The Zeppelin raid of 1916

Sunday, 31 January 2021

Loughborough Zeppelin Attack Anniversary

So Who Was Josiah Gilbert Pt 2

Anniversary

So Who Was Josiah Gilbert Pt 1

Anniversary

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The Carillon - a perfect setting

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