scareships » Greenmeadow http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Greenmeadow (near Tongwynlais), Cardiff http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/01/greenmeadow-near-tongwynlais-cardiff/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1913/02/01/greenmeadow-near-tongwynlais-cardiff/#comments Sat, 01 Feb 1913 07:36:06 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=85 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.

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