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[guy60660]

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[househuntingscotland]

2 bedroom flat for sale on Old Castle Road, Cathcart, Glasgow

Asking price: £185,000 (fixed price)

Sold price: £180,000

[scottishscotty]

[renegadephilosopher]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Some Cathcart/Korn for the soul--also my half of a collab with the fantabulous @pink-dog!!

[howshegoing]

05.04.2021_5:04 PM

[red-bed-ted-thread]

Typical four storey working mans red tenements in Glasgow - here in Kings Park Road, Cathcart. Glasgow. 

Typically, these would have a large master bedroom for husband and wife, children would be accommodated in box beds - cupboard sized niches - one adjoining the sitting room and the other off the kitchen. In later years these would become pantries or small study nooks. Others would choose to knock through the wall to create a larger open plan dining area. 

With the advent of fitted carpets and vacuum cleaners, owners would find black streaks on their new carpets. This was black steelworks cinder which filled in the voids between the floors. Many lifted their floors and removed the cinder, which unfortunately diminished the sound deadening and occasionally caused rodent problems as vermin didn’t like to burrow or walk on the cinder, probably due to high glassified sand content.

Usually the tenements continued down the side street - and formed a hollow square, with a drying green, but it looks as if they have been knocked down or never built judging by the newer flats behind. 

I expect those tenements that survived post war modernisation of Glasgow will now stand forever - they are really solid structures.

On a personal note, my Grandfather (He became a policeman in Glasgow after serving in the Trenches) lived in these particular ones from the 1930s to the late 1970s.

[weeglasasian]

Couper Institute Public Hall, never noticed the building until now. Stunning isn't it?