All these things aside, the airships were fantastically successful at at least one thing ... deadlier German aerial attacks during World War II. Zeppelins were also used for surveillance.

but this was to change on 19 January 1915 with the first air attacks of World War One by the German Zeppelin. Historian and aerial specialist Ben Robinson has traced the attacks for Inside Out East.

but almost 25 years earlier when German zeppelins bombed Edinburgh during World War One. The Zeppelin, a motor-driven rigid airship, was developed by German inventor Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in ...

Image caption, The Zeppelins were used to drop bombs during the early years of World War 1 The first air raids on Scotland did not come during the blitz of World War Two, but almost 25 years ...

This dramatic moment, when a First World World Zeppelin just misses a barracks ... terrorised Britain in the early skirmishes of the war. One snap reveals the inside of the 650ft long airship ...

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THIS year marks a century since the start of World War One. Features writer GAYLE McBAIN speaks to one man who lost relatives in the terrifying Zeppelin raid on the town — and tells of his ...