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[per ardua per mare per terram]

And if I remember the crowds could have been from anywhere, but if from Cuffley could help with the location.

[NigelS]

There is footage of the unveiling of the Robinson memorial at Cuffley on the British Pathe site
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=18056

and of the man himself (with some duplication)
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=76500
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75967
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=80842

also of the wreckage display
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75686

Although none is given as being at Cuffley, there are also plenty of clips of WW1  Zepp. wreckage  - possibly including that used in Andrew Marr's programme -  available  (home page  http://www.britishpathe.com/index.php ) which can be found by searching using 'Zeppelin' (used 'advanced search' and restrict date range to avoid post WW1 coverage - although that's equally fascinating.)

Thanks  are due to Desmond7 for pointing out the superb British Pathe site on his Ulster Tower opening footage, Found on pathe thread & to Thants for discovering it in the first place.

NigelS

[Zepp Raider]

NigelS

Just had the chance to look at the British Pathe clips - great stuff!  A quick search round is, indeed, worth the effort when it comes to Zeppelin wrecks and damage.   I would recommend the following two clips:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=77963

Entitled "Zeppelin Over Essex", it includes a lovely scene of five soldiers in a rowing boat dangling what looks to be an incendiary bomb over the side!  I think that this may be taken after the Malden raid of April 1915.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=78788

"Zeppelin Visits Southend" - this shows the damage to West Road, Prittlewell, Westcliffe on Sea.  I have a couple of postcards of this scene.

Happy New Year to all

David

[per ardua per mare per terram]

Thanks for these links, plenty to keep me going.

[CGM]

The dedication of the Robinson-Cuffley Memorial:

here

CGM

[phil w]

Did anybody else notice that in the film of the wreckage the negatives were reversed. There is a sign showing TUO.

[Mk VII]

The 'tin tabernacle' which was used as a makeshift mortuary at the time was where the road does a sharp right-angle and turns from being Plough Hill into E. Ridgeway. It was demolished in the 1960s although it remained on some maps until much more recently.
There is also extant film of the Potters Bar airship crash, and the funeral of the crew - I recognise the cemetery gate.