Four Glasgow firemen were injured, a police station evacuated and the city’s underground halted as a “terror blaze” swept through a Cowcaddens supermarket on this day 56 years ago.
The fire at the Grandfare store started in the basement shortly after 9.30 on September 16, 1966, but it was not until later in the afternoon that it was finally brought under control.
The premises of the Northern division of Glasgow City Police offices, immediately behind the supermarket, had to be evacuated. Fears were voiced that the building might collapse and fracture the roof of the Underground tunnel. Glasgow Salvage Corps said it was “one of the biggest and most extensive in the city in recent years.”
The Evening Times reported: “Only the shell of the 80-year-old building remains and the damage will run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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