And I always remember going to have a look there, first field we got to was solid up with people on rugs and bedding on floor.
Well they didn’t know, they just simply fled, sort of stampeded, into country that were just beyond us, fields. Sheffield was all afire and what damage they’d done. Well when we’d got up and gone out, there were very soon crowds of people coming up road and they’d got all sorts of tales about it. And one day the siren, as such, which was a policeman and he had a bicycle and from the mud guard to the handle bars he had a notice, ‘Take cover.’ And he blew a whistle and he shouted, ‘Take cover! Take cover!’ And then he went along past us, Pimlico Road, and up Lower Sloane Street and away.Įven if they were warned of an attack, people often didn’t know what to do when it happened. Harry Smith was a schoolboy living near Sheffield when a raid took place on the city. I must have been six but going on seven and in 1915, in May, my little brother was born. Lily Baker, who was living in West London at the time, remembers how rudimentary this was. The raids became more frequent and widespread, and a means of warning people about them was introduced. And I can remember being in the bar with my father and the whole place shook and he says, ‘Open the door boy, there’s somebody trying to get into the bar.’ And I went to the door and I didn’t see… if there was a flash I couldn’t see them, the bombs, but I could hear half a dozen bombs falling in a straight line down Southgates Road which is near the fish wharf right in the other end of the town. I remember Yarmouth being bombed with the… by Zeppelins – we were the first town in England to be bombed by Zeppelins. William Gedge was a 15 year old resident in Great Yarmouth. On 19 January two Zeppelins bombed the coast of Norfolk. From the start of 1915, the people of Great Britain encountered a threat they had never known before – direct attack from German airships, particularly the best-known type – the Zeppelin.
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