Air Raid Defences in and around Croydon: Timeline
4 August 1914: Britain declares war on Germany 24 August 1914: Special Constables start guarding “vulnerable points” including water, gas and electricity... Read More
Public Reaction in Croydon to the Zeppelin Raids of October 1915
Norman, one of our volunteers on the Fighting for Air project, discovered a very interesting and important item in the Museum of... Read More
Fighting for Air Volunteer Visit to the Local Studies / Museum of Croydon
In the last post, I detailed how six of us had a busy day last Tuesday as we visited the First World... Read More
Fighting for Air Visit to the Imperial War Museum
Six of our volunteers had a busy day on Tuesday 12 December as we visited the First World War (FWW) Galleries at... Read More
A ring around London: Beddington Aerodrome
Beddington Aerodrome was at first just meant to be an emergency landing field but public pressure after the Zeppelin air raids meant... Read More
The Croydon Zeppelin Raid: A Personal Connection
33 Leslie Park Rd, Croydon, 14 October 1915 The Fighting for War project has used this image of the Zeppelin raid on... Read More
Zeppelins over Croydon, 13/14 October 1915
Zeppelins raided London for two nights in September 1915. On the second of these raids, a Zeppelin was seen and heard heading... Read More
The Hague Convention and Aerial Warfare
The ‘calculated savagery of the German advance through Belgium’, as described in Croydon and the Great War, had a significant impact on... Read More