"Back area, Standburn, shewing domestic wash-houses and privy middens"

Maker
Stirling County Council
Production date
1930s
 Description
View of long brick-built domestic wash-houses and the privy middens, Standburn. Clothes have been hung out to dry next to the middens. Taken as part of record of replacement of slum housing by Westquarter Model Village, built by Stirling County Council.
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Maker
Production date
1930s
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Subject place
Standburn/Muiravonside area
Subject notes
The houses had no toilets. Instead there was a privy midden system of ash pits situated at points in the village emptied by a full-time scavenger. The houses had no running water. Clothes were washed in the wash-house, where there was running water and a coal fire boiler.
Accession number
P24867

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