9 September 2010

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Neath, Neath Port Talbot

9 September 2010 in Manchester Guardian, Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales by Brett Holman | No comments

Date uncertain: 1 or 2 February 1913. Airship heading west, no further details.

Manchester Guardian, 4 February 1913, p. 5.

The Mumbles, Swansea

9 September 2010 in Manchester Guardian, Swansea, The Mumbles, Wales by Brett Holman | No comments

Airship heading west, no further details.

Manchester Guardian, 4 February 1913, p. 5. The date is from Nigel Watson, Granville Oldroyd, and David Clarke, The 1912-1913 British Phantom Airship Scare (South Humberside: Self published, 1987), 201.

Greenmeadow (near Tongwynlais), Cardiff

9 September 2010 in Cardiff, Globe, Greenmeadow, Manchester Guardian, Multiple witness, Night, Standard, The Times, Visual, Wales by Brett Holman | No comments

Colonel Henry Lewis’s servants, including a stud groom, saw an airship with a light at the rear coming from Cardiff and heading west at 10.45pm. Although Neath was telephoned nobody saw it there and so it was assumed to have crossed the Bristol Channel to Exmoor. The night was clear.

The Times, 4 February 1913, p. 4; Globe, 3 February 1913, p. 12; Standard, 3 February 1913, p. 9; Manchester Guardian, 4 February 1913, p. 5. The precise location is from Nigel Watson, Granville Oldroyd, and David Clarke, The 1912-1913 British Phantom Airship Scare (South Humberside: Self published, 1987), 198.