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Craig Williams

Glasgow tenement named among top buildings to experience 'true Scottish history' by Lonely Planet

A much-loved Glasgow museum housed within a city tenement has been named among the top spots to experience 'true Scottish history'.

Travel bible Lonely Planet named their nine favourite buildings in the country people can visit "that represent the story of Scotland in three dimensions".

Among the buildings to have made the list are Stirling Castle, Melrose Abbey, Real Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh and the Hill House in Helensburgh - designed by Glasgow's own Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

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And joining them on the list is none other than Tenement House, which Lonely Planet labelled "a cozy Glasgow time warp" and a place which provides "a charming evocation of middle-class life".

About the historic house museum, located on Buccleuch Street in the Garnethill area, the travel bible wrote: If Real Mary King’s Close recounts Scottish city life in the 1600s, the cozy time warp of the Tenement House winds the clock forward 300 years.

Inside The Tenement House. (The Tenement House)

"Glasgow’s rise is a big part of Scotland’s history – its population shot from around 80,000 in 1801 to ten times that a century later as trade and industry accelerated.

"A shorthand typist named Agnes Toward occupied this tenement flat (a small apartment block) from 1911 to 1965, and today you can visit her home as she lived in it – complete with gas lighting, grandfather clock, coal-fired cooking range, recipes, ornaments and 90-year-old jar of plum jam.

"A charming evocation of middle-class life, this apartment provides a worthy complement to grander Glasgow monuments like Kelvingrove and the inventive Riverside Museum."

We can't help but agree with them! To see the full list, click here

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