For a couple of years (1961-63) we lived in Newmains, centre of the North Lanarkshire coalfield and birthplace of the iron and steel industry in Central Scotland. We lived next door to Coltness Memorial Church (Church of Scotland) whose weekly evening services were occasionally replaced by "Moody and Sankey" evenings, when the usual psalms and hymns from the Church Hymnal would be replaced by the works of the American evangelists, whose popularity seems to have remained undimmed for nearly a hundred years.

This article describes their tour of Britain and Ireland and their very positive reception.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/classics/moody-gospel-awakening/moody-and-sankey-in-great-britain.html

Ross