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The Templeton Factory Disaster (1889)
01 November 1889
On 1 November 1889, during construction of William Leiper’s ornate Venetian façade for Templeton’s carpet factory, a gale brought an unfinished section of the wall down onto the adjoining weaving shed. Twenty-nine women working at their looms were killed. The façade was rebuilt and completed in 1892, and the disaster is remembered by a memorial stone at the site on Glasgow Green.
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