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• Author Douglas Stuart on Glasgow’s ‘doocot’ culture

  29-06-2022 15:00
  
  The Booker winner on the DIY pigeon lofts that gave the inhabitants of Glasgow’s estates something to call their ownI grew up in the east end of Glasgow and most working-class Glaswegians have seen a doocot. My family moved often, and we lived in a variety of council housing: from the modernist, brutalist, high-rise towers of Sighthill, to the pre-sandblasted, soot-soaked tenements. No matter what housing scheme we lived on, if you walked to its edges, you would usually find a doocot built
  
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• A monument to Scottish home life: why you should visit Tenement House

  29-06-2022 15:00
  
  Agnes Toward’s beautifully preserved Glasgow flat tells the story of these buildings – not slums but hubs of vibrant communitiesMiss Agnes Toward was a hoarder. For more than 50 years, she filed away old household bills, recipes, wartime leaflets, letters and personal papers. She also left her Glasgow tenement flat virtually untouched. Its original gas lighting was not replaced with an electric version until 1960, almost five decades after she began living there.The magpie habits and
  
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