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gordon wrote:Aye, not a direct link, i was more meaning that due to a lack of cash to demolish and rebuild, rehab was the only way forward in some areas - enter Raymond Young, ASSIST etc in Govan a few years later?
pwm437 wrote:
Four people were killed at 555 Dumbarton Road due to a collapse caused by the winds.
Quite a night
tobester wrote:pwm437 wrote:
Four people were killed at 555 Dumbarton Road due to a collapse caused by the winds.
Quite a night
Thats right, its the spare ground next to the new partick police station, where that tenement used to be.
I was told by my dad that the people in question were only here for a funeral, thats sad
My mum and dad were up in the blocks in broomhill drive, they said you could feel the block swaying and the window bulging.
I remember it from the high winds in 1987 (i think).
MacotheIsles wrote:These are all quite amazing recollections of a very significant event. Thanks to all.
As fate would have it I was in London on the night of the big 'Michael Fish' hurricane and saw the same kind of sights next day that I remembered from the Glasgow Hurricane: lamposts bent to the ground like knitting needles, debris and branches everywhere... The diference (I feel) is that the London event is remembered much more than the Glasgow one.
As an aside, was there ever any kind of memorial set up or a rememberance service for those who died in the Glasgow Hurricane?
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