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The end walls of tenements with fireplaces in them are no sure indication of bomb damage, subsidence or other disasters. The building regulations in Glasgow insisted that the people building less than a full block had to leave the end unfinished, with fireplaces and chimney flues, so that whoever completed the block could join on seamlessly ... otherwise you'd have two "ends" butting each other half-way along a block.
You can check this by looking at a block that's obviously been built in different styles ... there is no gap between them, or a double layer of chimneys.
yoker brian wrote:Found this link via the welcometoclydebank website
It gives details of a "Land Mine" in Dudley Drive in Hynland
http://www.hyndl.demon.co.uk/hyndland/dact/7landmine.htm
Although the plans for the new tenements were passed in April 1948, the building was not completed until 1954.
The new design matches the old in general terms, using similar building materials, and more or less the same layout of windows, except that the stair windows, while still facing the street, are mid-way between floors. While this new pattern rather interrupts the original, perhaps it provides a quiet reminder of the tragedy which struck in 1941.
Anything not built before 1910 was never finished as a change in the law virtually eradicated the prospective building of tenements.
Probably because Lloyd George's budget of 1909 -10 killed tenement construction stone dead.
john wrote:What law/budget was this?
More to the point why the hell was it passed?
Ronnie wrote:The full story of the tenements is in -
Frank Worsdall
The Glasgow Tenement: A Way of Life
(Chambers 1979; Richard Drew 1989; Chambers 1991)
The Mitchell has it.
But this was the end - Lloyd George's Finance Act of 1910 signalled the cessation of private tenement-building, since it made it quite uneconomical.
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