Zeppelins over the Works

Skinningrove ironworks, was targeted several times during the great war by Zeppelin Airships. A raid by German Naval Airship  L.9. Commanded by Kapitanleutnant Odo Loewe, on the 8th september 1915, Dropped bombs on the Benzol house part of the coke ovens, and Blast Furnaces. fortunately missing the T.N.T. plant. ‘Zeppelins over Skinningrove’ another post on the Archive gives a perspective as to the actual raids during World War I.