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A FORTNIGHT ago, we told how Samuel Plimsoll dreamed up the Plimsoll Line, a maritime safety marking, when he was staying at a guesthouse in Redcar High Street. Last week, Plimsoll’s great-grand-daughter, Daphne Rose of Malton, put us straight on the letters page, saying that the Derby MP witnessed the dangers of the “coffin ships” while visiting the seaside resort in 1864 but the concept of the line, which showed when a ship was overloaded, came from James Hall, a Newcastle shipowner. However, it was Plimsoll who championed the idea, as this splendid piece of political memorabilia shows in the collection of David Kerfoot, of Ainderby Steeple, a Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire.
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Giant of the Scottish independence movement: Andrew Welsh, his political life and personal achievements
Updated: June 28, 2021, 3:41 pm
Andrew Welsh with his wife Sheena and daughter Jane in Holyrood following his election to the Scottish Parliament.
Andrew Welsh, who has died aged 77, spent half a century at the heart of the Scottish independence movement.
He was also a husband, father, a teacher, a linguist and a guitar player. We look back the life of this most determined of politicians who was one of mould-breaking SNP intake of 11 MPs in 1974.
Andrew Welsh with daughter Jane’s dog Loki.
Andrew Paton Welsh was born in Glasgow on April 19, 1944.
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