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WWI Air Raid Damage, Estreham Road, Streatham Vale, 1916

WWI Air Raid Damage, Estreham Road, Streatham Vale, 1916

Although the house in the foreground has been completely demolished, the walls and floors of the adjoining property are still partly intact.

 

Air-raid damage to houses in Baytree Road caused by a Zeppelin L31 airship.

The nine airships that reached England on 23 and 24 September 1916 dropped a total of 371 bombs causing many casualties and extensive damage to properties in South London.

The Zeppelins were cumbersome and slow moving, carried a very light payload of bombs and were relatively easy targets for Allied defences.

The damage was very minor when compared with the highly organised bombing raids of the Second World War.


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Images of Streatham
 
Proposed Layout of Manor Park Estate, Streatham, c. 1860
Proposed Layout of
Manor Park Estate,
Streatham, c. 1860
 
Streatham Common, 1870
Streatham Common,
1870
 
Streatham High Road, Streatham, 1895
Streatham High Road,
Streatham, 1895
 
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