LETTER: Ball lightning - not the first time for Horsham

I was most interested to read the article in WSCT, regarding ball lightning seen at Mannings Heath (June 20).
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Jun 2013, 13:37 BST
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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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On 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