ALL in a day’s work for a Glasgow firefighter, back in 1969.
A dramatic tenement roof collapse had resulted in the stairwell filling with rubble and blocking the escape route for all 25 residents (plus two budgies). It was on Scott Street in Garnethill, and luckily, no-one was injured.
Even those on the ground floor had to come out of their windows as the debris had blocked their doors.
No-one knew what had caused the collapse, but it came just over a year after the great storm which had hit the city, killing nine people and leaving hundreds more homeless. This tenement had been damaged then, so it was assumed it had been weakened and never quite recovered.
Our recent story on David McJimpsey’s desperate attempt to save his Frank Sinatra records when his tenement building collapsed, brought to mind another shocking building collapse in Glasgow, back in 1977.
The 1977 building collapse. Pic: Herald and Times
Our photographer has noted on the back of the picture, taken on ‘Watt Street, Kingston’ that ‘Mrs Donaghue had been standing at this window moments before the collapse’.
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