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Edinburgh's Colonies: Housing the Workers
Author(s): Richard Rodger (Author)
- Publisher: Argyll Publishing
- Publication Date: January 1, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1906134782
- ISBN-13: 9781906134785
Book Description
Few cities can boast housing estates with the distinctiveness and charm of ‘the Colonies’ of Edinburgh. After a dispute in 1861 a group of building workers formed the Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company. They bought some land on the fringe of the city, contributed their own labour, and built the ‘colony’ houses at Stockbridge.
