AS the oft-heard saying has it, you had to make your own entertainment in those days, and if your local street happened to suffer severe flooding - well, that was all to the good.
These Glasgow youngsters testing the waters in Shettleston Road at Hart Street couldn’t help but look on the bright side when floods struck parts of Scotland on September 11, 1950.
It wasn’t the only city area to be affected by heavy rains: substantial flooding was also reported in Camlachie, Thorniebank and Merrylee. One street in Camlachie was flooded to a depth of two feet when a local burn overflowed.
At St George’s Cross underground station, rain water penetrated the tunnel roof and covered the line to several inches.
The main Stranraer-Glasgow road near Cairnryan was blocked when the heavy rains caused a landslide, which narrowly missed a road-man who was making an inspection of the area at the time. Emergency crews toiled throughout the day to clear earth and rocks from a 75-yard stretch of the roadway. Some 200 soldiers on an exercise were held up by the landslide.
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Herald DiaryA bridge was brought down at Corsewall Mill, rendering part of the Stranraer-Kirkcolm road impassable. At Challoch, near Newton Stewart, villagers were marooned in their homes for several hours.
More than four feet of water covered the roadway at Ballantrae when a river burst its banks; motorists whose cars became stuck in the waters were pulled out by heavy lorries. In Bellshill, Lanarkshire, firemen had to pump water at 100 gallons a minute to save houses at New Stevenston from being completely flooded when a burn behind the houses overflowed.
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