Scotland's temperature dataset

BBC has a story about how this winter has been the coldest winter in Scotland.
By combining temperatures of January and December it [the Met Office] showed they were the coldest since 1914 - the year data started being logged."

I could have sworn the global warming folk say that temperature records go back to 1880.
So what's it to be? We can only check global warming in Scotland for the last 96 years? Not much of a dataset that.