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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Baird on Tuesday 06 January 04 23:11 GMT (UK)
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When a census return is given for a Tenement Close, does anyone know if the returns started at the ground floor or the top flat? I am trying to compile a photographic record of existing buildings and would like to identify exact windows /flats.
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Street numbers increase as they get further from the centre of the city/town. Where closes are concerned, it usually follows that the ground level flats have the lower numbers (again, with the nearest to the city centre being the lowest) so that if it were on the odd number side of the street the ground level flats would be Nos. 1 & 3, first floor would be 5 & 7, etc.
At least that is how the tenements were numbered in the area of Glasgow where I was born.
Hope this is of help.
Des
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A convention used in Glasgow (and very possibly elsewhere) is that all streets were numbered starting from the end nearest the city centre with all odd numbers to the left and even to the right.
Tenements were seperated as you looked at the front of the building from the outside ie flat g1 or 0/1 is ground left g2 right and so on up the building.
Another convention in Glasgow is that they did not use the numbers 13 or 1313 for any dwelling houses.