Thanks to a posting in the Flickr group, attention has been drawn to the bombing of Edinburgh on April 2, 1916, and a memorial stone laid in Grassmarket to highlight the event.

Bombed on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Not something I've tripped over.

Night Zeppelins brought first dose of air raid death - Edinburgh Evening News

A costly day for the docks at Leith, where one of the bombs landed on a bonded warehouse there, causing a blaze that lit up the surrounding area, and caused £44,000 of damage.

The Times April 5 1916


Amsterdam April 4
An official communiqué issued in Berlin today says:
For the third time on the night of April 2-3,a naval air squadron attacked the English East coast, this time the northern part.
Edinburgh and Leith, with the docks on the Firth of Forth, Newcastle, and important wharves and buildings, blast furnaces, and factories on the Tyne were bombarded with numerous explosive and incendiary bombs with very good results.  Heavy explosions with extensive collapses were observed.  A battery near Newcastle was silenced.
In spite of the heavy bombardment all the airships safely returned and landed.

Note:- We are officially informed that the above statement is of the usual inaccurate and bombastic type with which Germany hopes to delude neutrals and her own public. – Reuter

Copyright 1916, The Times

I was at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune last week and they have one of the bombs from the Zeppelin that didn't explode on display - didn't say where it was found.

Managed to get a picture of the bomb dropped by the Zeppelin on Edinburgh in 1916 - it's on show at the East Fortune Museum of Flight

Did a bit of digging and here is a map of Edinburgh showing the locations of the 27 bombs dropped by the Zeppelin in 1916

Hi Neilinblack
That's a very helpful map of the Zeppelin bombings in 1916 that you've compiled.
Would you be happy for me to add it to my web site.
My site is a personal, non commercial web site that includes history and recollections of Edinburgh, http://www.edinphoto.org.uk