Paisley pub on site of Britains worst canal disaster to honour victims [Scotsman]
Date: 17/08/2019
It is believed to have been Britains worst canal disaster, in which 85 people, most of them children, died when a pleasure boat capsized just days after the waterway opened. But there is nothing to mark the horrific incident at the site of the canal basin in Paisley. Now staff at an adjacent bar plan to put up a memorial to the tragedy nearly 210 years after one of the towns darkest days. It happened as crowds flocked to sail on the first section of the Glasgow-Paisley-Ardrossan canal, opened four days earlier in November 1810.
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It is believed to have been Britain’s worst canal disaster, in which 85 people, most of them children, died when a pleasure boat capsized just days after the waterway opened.
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Location: Paisley Canal [1st]
Company: Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
16/08/2019 John Yellowlees
