Glasgow, Past and Present
by James Pagan
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217484091
Paperback|9780217484091
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OLD HOUSES.?NUISANCES. The ordinary meeting of this Court was held on Thursday, November 30?A. Galbraith, Esq., the Lord Dean of Guild, presiding. At the instance of the Procurator-Fiscal, many owners of houses were charged with having their properties in a ruinous and dangerous condition, and for various contraventions of the Police Act. A number of these houses, which are principally situated in the High Street, the Old Wynd, and Spoutmouth, were either ordered to be taken down, or the matter was remitted to competent tradesmen to inspect and report to next meeting of the Court. Amongst the rest, a large amount of the property, situated in Close 75, High Street, better known as the Fiddler's Close, was under consideration, and placed in the black list. This locality presents striking remembrancers of the olden time, and it is one of the few spots in the city which still shows some remains of the semi-wooden erections of the seventeenth century ?so common in Glasgow in the days of our fathers. We, therefore, contemplate almost with some regret the possibility of seeing it swept away. Obscure and dirty though it may be, once it was the abode of well-conditioned, church-going tradesmen and craftsmen; but now it supplies domiciles to the very poorest and most wretched of the population. It is altogether in a very dilapidated condition?the water coming in by the roof, and rinding its way through the whole building; moreover, the level of the close is below the street, and the floors are sunk below the close?so the glory of the Fiddler's Close hath departed, and an entire reconstruction of the spot is considered necessary before any real improvement can be effected for the residenters. It is, to be sure, as Sir Walter Scott remarks, more picturesque to lament the desecratio...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217484091 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217484093 |
| Weight | 0.79 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 240 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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