"Single Apartment badly kept house at Standburn"

Maker
Stirling County Council
Production date
1930s
 Description
There is an iron bedstead, the bed being unmade. Two sideboards are littered. The drawers of one of them are too full to shut. There are items of broken furniture, a bottle, boxes and tools lying on the floor which appears to be covered by broken linoleum. 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
Subject person
Subject place
Standburn/Muiravonside area
Subject notes
A teapot sits on the range and there is a paraffin lamp on the mantelpiece. Items of clothing dry near the open fire which is burning brightly. The table is covered in bowls and cups. There is a zinc bath and several pails.

The black mark in the wall paper above the fire suggests that the room was sometimes filled with smoke. Perhaps it had not been swept. The pails may have been needed because the roof leaked or to bring water from the well in the street.
Accession number
P24870

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