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Publication Account
Date 2009
Event ID 1019763
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019763
Napier House, a model lodging house of 1898–99 between Govan Road and Clydebrae Street (fig 5.36; see Williamson et al 1990, 598). Common lodging houses had provided for the thousands of single, itinerant men taking work in the city. Many of these became notorious ‘flea barracks’ and ‘fever dens’, prompting the construction of improved ‘model’ accommodation from the 1870s (Fraser and Maver 1996b, 375). This one is built in part of mass concrete.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Govan: Archaeology and Development’ (2009).
