Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Boys Outside Tenement House Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of boys outside a tenement house in Glasgow, Scotland. A tenement was a substandard multi family dwelling in the urban core of the city, usually old and occupied by the poor. Tenements made up a large percentage of the housing stock of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Glasgow tenements were built to provide high density housing for the large number of people immigrating to the city in the 19th and early 20th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution, when the city's population boomed to more than 1 million people. Glasgow tenements were generally built no taller than the width of the street on which they were located; therefore, most are about 3 to 5 stories high. Virtually all Glasgow tenements were constructed using red or blonde sandstone, which has become distinctive.
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