Hail Storm - Sheffield - 5th July 1843

This post describes the Hail Storm on the 5th July 1843 which did a great deal of damage in Shefield and surrounding areas, including breaking 5700 panes of glass in the Botanical Garden greenhouses.

It is rather a long piece of text from the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent for 8th July 1843, which I have included in its entirety, plus some follow-up articles from the same newspaper, and an account of a further storm in August of the same year.