View from NNE showing part of ESE front of numbers 1-6 Collins Street with part of N block of Cathedral Court in background

Description View from NNE showing part of ESE front of numbers 1-6 Collins Street with part of N block of Cathedral Court in background

Date 1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 677797

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Workers' housing, Nos 1-6 Collins Street and Cathedral Court, No 25 Rotten Row, Glasgow In the late 19th century Glasgow's citizens tried to get rid of the overcrowded housing that had grown up since the late 17th century in the old city centre. At first a policy of demolition was pursued, but from the late 1880s it was recognised that replacement dwellings had to be provided, at affordable rents. This shows two blocks of housing provided for rent to workmen of limited means. On the right is part of Morrin Court, built by the City Improvement Trust in about 1900, and, in the centre, part of Cathedral Court, built by the Glasgow Workmen's Dwellings Co Ltd in the mid-1890s. Cathedral Court, and a similar development in Bridgeton, Greenhead Court, were built to designs by J J Burnet to give workers of the most limited of wages the chance to live in decent if limited accommodation. The blocks were of harled brick, with 17th-century details, and balcony access to individual flats. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/15/21

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/677797

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