Stow St
50 years ago today.
1968 I was ten years old and lived in Wemyss street in the centre of Glasgow. We stayed in a tenement building as most people did. Then there was no internet or advanced weather forecast.
Everyone went to bed as normal with no idea what was going to happen.
A Hurricane was about to change so many people`s life for ever. I should I say The Hurricane as we have always remembered it.
I can only recall the wind battering of the windows. So long ago. Don`t know what was rumour or truth.
I remember my mum telling me that school was off and there was chimney pots every where.
Electricity was off. This left the city in darkness.
Most buildings had slate roofs. Which were scattered all over the streets.
20 people died from the storm, with 9 dead in Glasgow. 700 people left homeless. Ships sank in the river Clyde. The Multi-storey flats were evacuated.These were swaying. They were the tallest flats in Europe.
Tragic
It was worst natural disaster and gale in the UK since records began.
5o years on still Glaswegians talk about the Hurricane.
1968 I was ten years old and lived in Wemyss street in the centre of Glasgow. We stayed in a tenement building as most people did. Then there was no internet or advanced weather forecast.
Everyone went to bed as normal with no idea what was going to happen.
A Hurricane was about to change so many people`s life for ever. I should I say The Hurricane as we have always remembered it.
I can only recall the wind battering of the windows. So long ago. Don`t know what was rumour or truth.
I remember my mum telling me that school was off and there was chimney pots every where.
Electricity was off. This left the city in darkness.
Most buildings had slate roofs. Which were scattered all over the streets.
20 people died from the storm, with 9 dead in Glasgow. 700 people left homeless. Ships sank in the river Clyde. The Multi-storey flats were evacuated.These were swaying. They were the tallest flats in Europe.
Tragic
It was worst natural disaster and gale in the UK since records began.
5o years on still Glaswegians talk about the Hurricane.
