A truly tragic event. 💔
It has been 150 years since one of the worst explosions Glasgow has ever seen, which killed eighteen people.
Over by the water, ships that sat on the quayside were moved away. After a few hours, the roof of the mill collapsed and the remains of the wall fell down.The following day, work continued on trying to clean up the insecure pieces of the building that still posed a danger. During this time, two bodies were discovered in a nearby tenement.
Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox A civil engineering professor from Glasgow University, and a chemistry lecturer from the Royal College of Surgeons were asked by an insurance company to investigate the cause of the explosion. They interviewed survivors, visited operating mills, and studied similar incidents.
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