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Tenement House Glasgow

Description: Authentic late 19th century Glasgow tenement flat / The Tenement House is an authentic 19th Glasgow tenement house, the ... more

Tenement House Glasgow ... home, for over fifty years, of Miss Agnes Toward, an ordinary lady who kept all sorts of things others would have thrown away.

Newest Review: ... of how people lived back in Victorian times. My own flat was built in 1874 and its first occupiers were wealthy wine merchants. The kind of tenement flats that most people associate with Glasgow are not my kind but the old disease ridden 1 or 2 roomed slums. I went to the tenement flat to catch a glimpse of how people may have lived in my own flat many years ago. The history of the tenement ... more

... flat is that a Miss Agnes Toward lived there for over 50 years from 1911. During that time she did little to renovate with the exception of getting electricity in in 1960. The national trust now owns this house as it gives a window into the past way ...more

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Tenement House Glasgow: Snapshot to Edwardian life in Glasgow (437 words)
by - written on 19/09/08 (Very useful, 62 readings)
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I moved to the West End of Glasgow 6 years ago & live in a main door flat of a tenemant block. My flat has only been occupied by 4 sets of people including myself and when I moved in the original carpet was still in place. when I moved this carpet I found some newspaper from the early 1900s. It also seems that no-one stripped wallpaper over the years they have just papered over it. Having never lived in a house older than those built in the 60s I find it fascinating to look into the history of how people lived back in Victorian times. My own flat was built in 1874 and its first occupiers were wealthy wine merchants. The kind of tenement flats that most ... Read the complete review

A Glesca hame (1260 words)
by - written on 28/08/08 (Very useful, 121 readings)
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What do you think of when you think of Glasgow. The wet weather, the incomprehensibly strung accent, the obsession with football or the fact that it can be a rough industrial working class city? Part of this makes me think of the tenements that I studied in my Scottish history degree. Those blocks full of cramped conditions, bad sanitation and breeding grounds for TB that were so fondly beloved of the Glaswegians. Those slum tenements may have long been cleared away to be replaced by the equally bad high rise flats on far flung council estates but the better class of tenement still survive, elegantly lining the streets of Glasgow with their wonderful red sandstone ... Read the complete review