Author Topic: Where is Bremners Land Duntocher?  (Read 12733 times)

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Re: Where is Bremners Land Duntocher?
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 02 January 16 22:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Eilidh,  Found this old photo,  to the left are the houses on Bremners Land.  there were doors at the front...and doors to the back entrance from stone stairs with metal railings.  Helps a wee bit.  myyran.
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Re: Where is Bremners Land Duntocher?
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 03 January 16 09:15 GMT (UK) »
The use of a surname and the word LAND in this context was, in Scotland, a common way of describing rented housing in multiple occupation. Here is a quote from 1829:

In Embro', where The Land means, ye ken, a Tenement or Tenements, a batch o' houses

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Re: Where is Bremners Land Duntocher?
« Reply #29 on: Sunday 03 January 16 10:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Imber,   I always thought  'land' meant the houses were built on Farmers  Land. Thankyou for your info. Myyran.
Stevenson,Wright,  Antrim, Armagh.
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