about tenement town

I’m Diarmid Mogg. I’m interested in the stories of ordinary people who lived their lives in the places where we live today, and I spend a lot of time writing about them, mostly using stories I find in old newspapers.

The newspaper archives contain a lot of interesting scraps of information about the people who were here before us, and about the places they lived, and I often search the old papers for mention of the addresses of tenements that have caught my eye to see what stories I can find.

Tenement Town takes a look behind the doors I pass every day, and offers glimpses of the lives that were lived over the centuries in the places Edinburgh’s citizens still call home.

My other website

Small Town Noir

Get in touch

If you’d like me to research a particular tenement, you can contact me on Twitter at the link below, or send me a message using the contact form on the link on the main page. I can’t promise I’ll come up with anything remarkable, but you never know.

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