City Hospital, Birmingham
The City Hospital originally opened in 1889 as an extension to the Western Road workhouse and has been known by several names including Birmingham Union Infirmary, Dudley Road Infirmary and Dudley Road Hospital.
Country and County: United Kingdom
Hednesford Scareship
According to David Taylor’s article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, one night in 1913, at 7.30pm, several people saw an airship carrying a light.
Longford Scareship
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’ in February 1913, multiple witnesses reported a large, dark cigar shape in the sky.
Kinver Scareship, Staffordshire
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in 1916, reports circulated that a German ‘Zeppelin’ had landed in the area whilst on a bombing raid.
Exhall Scareship, Warwickshire
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in 1913, an airship or aeroplane, at a considerable height, was seen for about five minutes on a clear moonlit night at about 9.45p
Coventry Scareship, Warwickshire
According to David Taylor’s article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in May 1909, Coventry, England, tramway men reported an airship.
Small Heath Scareship, Birmingham
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in May 1909, multiple witnesses saw a cigar shaped airship, without lights, passing overhead on several consecutive nights.
Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918
At the turn of the 20th century, visionaries began to dream that the new science of aeronautics would bring universal peace on the Earth by love or fear. Love because as people travelled more they would get to know each other as human beings and no longer as sinister foreigners; fear, because the destructive power of aerial bombardment would render war unthinkable.
Kirroughtee Hotel Big Cat Sighting (2013)
Holidaymakers staying at Kirroughtee Hotel outside Newton Stewart had a close encounter with one of Galloway’s best kept secrets last Saturday morning – an elusive big cat.
Les Gill and his partner Linda were looking out of their bedroom window when they both clearly saw the animal in the hotel grounds.
Mothers’ Hospital of the Salvation Army
Mothers’ Hospital of the Salvation Army, opened as the Ivy House Maternity Hospital in 1884 at 280 Mare Street, Hackney. It changed its name to Ivy House Hospital in 1913 when it moved to 153 – 165 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney and eventually took the name Mother’s Hospital in 1922.
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