The Tenement House - History or not?

A house in Glasgow, frozen in time, looked after by the National Trust of Scotland and available for you to see! This is a property that as I walked around, I saw things that I have in my house today. See if the same applies to you or is it history!
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[@pilpelet100]

Thanks for a very interesting tour. I remember a lot of the things from childhood - the flat iron (we had moved to electricity but when there were power cuts...), the mangle for squeezing out the laundry, the terrible Izal toilet paper in the days before tissue, a great-aunt who made corsets! Also, I went with a friend to visit someone in a Glasgow tenement around 1964. Maybe parts of this are history but other parts still in use.

[@PartTimeBoater]

I agree that some things are still around. I think the wire boning for corsets was used in the TV show Sewing Bee so it is still available to buy and use. The rest of that particular tenement building was private dwellings so they are alive and well but modernised! Thanks for your comment. 🙂

[@michellenorris211]

Love it!! Amazing.Subscribed 😃

[@PartTimeBoater]

Thank you so much for your comment and subscribing, Michelle. I appreciate it. 🙂

[@markrant1460]

Thank you Mary Ann for taking us back in time. YES, things were simpler but they weren't easier! Were people happier than they are today; probably not. Will our grandchildren think similar thoughts of us? Looking forward to next in Scotland. Mark Alberta, Canada

[@PartTimeBoater]

Thanks Mark. I don’t think life was easier but it was different. The 60s was my childhood so this is probably recent history and in living memory. That was the interesting thing to me. 🙂

[@TheAwakeningangel]

Oh the memories of home, I grew up in a tenement in Paisley, so many things here I know so well even the bed recess which I loved. The high ceilings and ornate coving that everyone wants today we had and never thought a thing about it, however our bath was a big metal thing pulled out once a week and the toilet was on the landing shared by the neighbour, now that was a scary place. Thanks for this video happy days . xxx Dede

[@PartTimeBoater]

Thank you for sharing your memories of tenement living Dede. The shared toilet on the landing is inconceivable to us now. I find a lot about this building familiar to places I have visited but I grew up in East London and have vague recollections of 7 of my family sharing one room and sharing the bathroom and toilet with other tenants. I was 4 at the time. Things like the lace edged cloth on the rail, I have at home and came with us from India when we came to England in 1962. I am pleased this video brought back, hopefully good memories, of your growing up years. Thank you for watching and for your comment. 🙂

[@TheAwakeningangel]

@@PartTimeBoater Yes the outside toilet had to be the worst part, as imagine as you were going up into that building that a small door was there well that would be where it was, and if you needed to go and late, the sounds of other people going up and down, or worse turning the handle, lol then you got a oh sorry, thankfully door locks inside, but still. And yes the lace is beautiful just so many things that we had that I find I wish I had now. But I have the memories, my Grand mother raised me so it was her grand dad uncle and aunt, they were only 10 and 12 when i was born, but I would go back in a heart beat. Have a lovely week, xxxxx Dede