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WW1 War Memorial, Baltic Works, Effingham Road to commemorate the dead of the first and only Zeppelin bombing raid in Sheffield, September 1916

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Ref No:	s22339
Title:	WW1 War Memorial, Baltic Works, Effingham Road to commemorate the dead of the first and only Zeppelin bombing raid in Sheffield, September 1916
Location:	Sheffield_Nunnery
Date:	1991/10
Date Period:	1980-1999
Photographer:	SLAIS
Copyright::	SCC
Notes:	36 bombs were dropped many of them falling on closely-packed houses nearby. Reports of a raid on a ï¿½North Midland townï¿½ were published in newspapers at the time, however, due to war time censorship the full details were not published until 1918 (see Sheffield Independent 3rd December 1918 Sheffield Telegraph 4th December 1918).
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