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Little girl in torn sepia photograph My Gran's German dagger

In 1916 a Zeppelin was shot down at Hartlepool. Linda Robinson's Gran watched it burn, then found something remarkable on the beach.

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Linda's grandmother as a girl

"My Grandmother found a jewel-encrusted dagger on the sands at Hartlepool during the bombardment in WW1."

"She was made to hand it to the police by her mother who believed it was German."

Linda Robinson
Linda Robinson

Linda Robinson...

...is married with two children, and lives in Billingham.

Her hobbies are writing, reading, cooking and cinema.

She now writes for local amateur theatre/film.

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