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Flatted terraces, Smeaton, Midlothian |
Workers' housing of this type was a feature of mining and textile mill villages from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. This photograph dates from c. 1925.
In mining districts both the clay and the fuel used in brick-making was readily available as a by-product of coal-mining, though the 'common brick' which it produced was of inferior quality.
Subsequent rehousing and the collapse of the coal-mining industry have all but erased these buildings from mining villages. However, a variation on them can still be seen in Edinburgh's 'Colonies'. |
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