Lyon Street tenement

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Lyon Street tenement

Image: © kim traynor Taken: 22 May 2011

A terrace built in 1886-7 for the workers of the Dens Mills. According to the listed buildings record, Baxter Brothers, Dundee's biggest employers at the time, were the only textile company to build housing for their workers in the centre of the city. In 1871, this block housed 648 people in 30 two-room, 73 three-room and 1 four-roomed houses at a cost of £11,892. They were renovated in the early 1980s.

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Image Location

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Latitude
56.468684
Longitude
-2.958726