LETTER: Ball lightning - not the first time for Horsham
This is not the first time it has occurred in Horsham.
My father, Gordon King, and his two sisters were watching a severe thunder storm from a window of the family home in the Bishopric, when there was a flash of lightning right over head.
The next moment they saw a ball of coloured fire, about the size of a football slowly rolling along the telephone wires from their home towards the insulator, attached to a chimney, on the cottage opposite.
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Hide AdOn reaching this there was a huge explosion and the chimney was cut off level with the roof, and the bricks clattered down the roof and fell into the Bishopric.
I believe this occurred during the hot summer of 1911.
It would be most interesting if WSCT has a record of this event.
JIM KING
Smithers Hill Lane, Shipley