Advantages: a step back in time, beautifully preserved Disadvantages: difficult for disanbled, limited opening times
...but the better class of tenement still survive, elegantly lining the streets of Glasgow with their wonderful red sandstone facades. The tenement is such a symbol of Glasgow's past the national Trust for Scotland owns such a house in Garnethill very close to the Sauchiehall Street area of the the city centre. Number 145 Buccleuch Street is the Tenement House and is a fascinating slice of social history. This building on an ordinary Glaswegian street ... ...visitors. The Tenement House is a property I have always meant to visit on my numerous trips to Glasgow, due to my love and expertise of Scottish Social History but until this visit I have never got round to doing so . I'm glad I visited this time as its great wee gem and a good way to pass an hour when in the glorious city of Glasgow. Arriving at the door of the tenement block I climbed up into the stair well or the close as it is known. There are ...
duskmaiden 04.08.2008 (08.08.2009)
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...was our visit to The Tenement House in Glasgow.
Although this special museum is just a tiny tenement flat with two rooms, kitchen and bathroom, we actually spent more than one hour there. It is absolutely lovely.
What you will find on the first floor is a typical Victorian tenement flat of 1892, in its original state as it was used in the first half of the 20th century.
It was the home of Miss Agnes Toward , an ordinary Glasgow shorthand typist, ... ...reception and an exhibition about tenement life in general, as well as some interpretive and educational facilities, Anna Davidson, an actress who purchased this flat in 1975 has carefully preserved the atmosphere of this place before she sold it to the NTS (National Trust for Scotland) seven years later. The Trust has then restored the flat and opened it to the public.
The Tenement House is open from 1 March to 31 October, daily from 2 to 5 pm ...
Michael-S 09.06.2001
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