Follow the route of the 1st World War zeppelin

Dear local walker

 

I’m sorry not to have come up with a programme of walks since May.

 

One idea that has occurred to me is to follow the route of a Zeppelin airship which flew over Walthamstow, Leyton and Forest Gate dropping bombs.  This event happened one year into the First World War, 99 years ago on Sunday 17 August.  Our walk will be into the cool of the sunset, starting at 7pm at the junction of Bakers Avenue with Hoe Street, by the Hornbeam Environmental Centre E17 9AH, and ending at the junction of Cann Hall Road and Dames Road E11 3NW about 9pm, but with plenty of opportunities to leave the walk before the end.  Mostly streets suitable for wheelchairs and buggies with the final section over grass and gravel.

 

Hopefully the walk will be enjoyable but I don’t want to trivialise the experience of people targeted by explosive and incendiary devices, then or now.

 

Regards

 

David Boote
Walking Free in Waltham Forest

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