Tinderbox City - Cheapside St

[Nearly Sane]

Was on a guided walk today of the Glasgow Necropolis and one if the graves and monuments coveredwas to the fireman who list their lives in the Cheapside St Fire in 1960, something engraved on the city's memory


http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/cheapside-street-warehouse-fire-28-march-1960__o_t__t_1898.html

[Hope]

Was on a guided walk today of the Glasgow Necropolis and one if the graves and monuments coveredwas to the fireman who list their lives in the Cheapside St Fire in 1960, something engraved on the city's memory


http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/cheapside-street-warehouse-fire-28-march-1960__o_t__t_1898.html

Out of interest, what is the relevance of 1898 in the page title?  If anything?

[Nearly Sane]

Out of interest, what is the relevance of 1898 in the page title?  If anything?

Nothing I am aware of

[Hope]

Nothing I am aware of

It must just be a page number or indiactor, but it seemed to be a date!!

[Gordon]

I remember hearing about this when it happened - I was 7 at the time but I clearly remember my grandmother talking about this incident.

A few years later, in 1968, there was another major fire in the same vicinity (James Watt Street) which killed 22: these were workers in the building and not firefighters, and where the fire escapes had been locked from the inside preventing escape.

[Hope]

Would this be Scotland's or perhaps Glasgow's equivalent of Wales' Aberfan?

[Nearly Sane]

Would this be Scotland's or perhaps Glasgow's equivalent of Wales' Aberfan?

Not really, it's a different sort of issue when emergency workers die in carrying out their job.

I think each tragedy like this is unique and equivalence is an odd thing to loom for. It's only 5 days since the 45th anniversary of the  second Ibrox disaster when 66 people died.

[Anchorman]

Was on a guided walk today of the Glasgow Necropolis and one if the graves and monuments coveredwas to the fireman who list their lives in the Cheapside St Fire in 1960, something engraved on the city's memory


http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/cheapside-street-warehouse-fire-28-march-1960__o_t__t_1898.html

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The necropolis is a fantastic place - the views are stupendous for starters, before you even start on the monuments.
As for cheapside? Yes - even though it happened the year I was born, my uncle - who lived in Govan and worked at the Albion - talked about it often.

[Hope]

Not really, it's a different sort of issue when emergency workers die in carrying out their job.

I think each tragedy like this is unique and equivalence is an odd thing to loom for. It's only 5 days since the 45th anniversary of the  second Ibrox disaster when 66 people died.

I was trying to see where it fits in the scheme of national/regional impact.  I appreciate that it can be difficult to equate such different events, but I have heard events involving children and emergency workers (or more widely 'caring' workers) equated.

[Nearly Sane]

I was trying to see where it fits in the scheme of national/regional impact.  I appreciate that it can be difficult to equate such different events, but I have heard events involving children and emergency workers (or more widely 'caring' workers) equated.

What do you mean 'scheme of national/regional impact'? Why would anyone want to, never mind be able to, equate this sort of thing? That you have heard something done neither makes it sensible nor valid.

[Hope]

What do you mean 'scheme of national/regional impact'? Why would anyone want to, never mind be able to, equate this sort of thing?

That you have heard something done neither makes it sensible nor valid.

True, the person I heard it from was a politician, but I think the point they were trying to make was that we often place events that involve children higher than those that don't. For instance, reports on Aberfan often highlight the 116 child deaths with reference to the 28 adult deaths often an afterthought or even in a different sentence.  The Senghennydd disaster of 1913, which saw 440 deaths (439 miners and 1 rescuer) is barely know about outside Wales - unless you're a member of the mining fraternity.

[Nearly Sane]

True, the person I heard it from was a politician, but I think the point they were trying to make was that we often place events that involve children higher than those that don't. For instance, reports on Aberfan often highlight the 116 child deaths with reference to the 28 adult deaths often an afterthought or even in a different sentence.  The Senghennydd disaster of 1913, which saw 440 deaths (439 miners and 1 rescuer) is barely know about outside Wales - unless you're a member of the mining fraternity.

Relevance of a politician saying it?