The Big Freeze 1895
Letter to Willie Rankine from Garnet Wilson about their memories of the icy weather in the winter of 1894-1895.Willie Rankine had grown up at Woodhaven and Garnet Wilson in Newport. His father G L Wilson was the founder and owner of G L Wilson’s department store in Dundee. Garnet Wilson served on Newport Town Council from 1920 until 1930, and later was Provost of Dundee from 1940 until 1946, during which time he was knighted for his services to Dundee.
Date of creation
1969Date of coverage
1894-1895Contributor
Liz DowLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
NOT.1580Format
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