METROPOLE - 1961

Photo: Glasgowlife

Photo: Glasgow University Library 
On Oct. 28, 1961, a blaze destroyed the Metropole Theatre on Stockwell Street in Glasgow. The venue opened as the Scotia Music Hall in 1862. It featured a 160-foot foyer that opened into a music hall lined with dark polished wood. The builiding was also the scene of a fire in 1875, Wikipedia said.

DUNDEE WHISKY FIRE - 1906

On July 19, 1906, a whisky-fed blaze broke out at Watson’s Bond in Dundee - and burned for two days.  "Two million gallons of whisky went up in flames or down the drain," The Courier newspaper said in an August 202 remembrance. "It was enough, it was claimed, to provide every man in Scotland with six bottles of the hard stuff."