The Tenement House (National Trust for Scotland)
Gaslit Victorian tenement flat preserved with one woman's belongings from the early twentieth century.
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This guide to the Tenement House in Glasgow's Garnethill follows Agnes Toward, a shorthand typist who moved into this flat with her dressmaker mother in nineteen eleven and stayed for more than half a century. It touches the receipts, recipes and family heirlooms she held onto, and the actress who walked in after her death and decided what should happen to them. Best heard standing in the parlour, where the gas lamps still hiss.
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