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Friday 31 January 1919 in Glasgow was ‘no morning to rise early’ if intending to head to work. The reason why the historians behind Tanks on the Streets?:The Battle of George Square, Glasgow 1919 can write this is because they checked the Meteorological Office’s weather records for that auspicious day in Glasgow’s history. Thus ‘a dark and dreich morning, with a light north-easterly wind blowing’ and the temperature a notch below two degrees celsius is an accurate description of the weather encountered by Glasgow’s men and women who had been on strike all week and were now congregating in George Square.
The authors know it was dark