The Daldowie Doocot
Introduction
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The Daldowie Doocot
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 1 Apr 2005
This doocot (the pigeonholes can be seen just under the roof) was built on the Daldowie Estate in about 1745, by a wealthy merchant named Bogle, to complement his recently-built country house. The doocot stands 12.4 metres high, and has a diameter of 6.2 metres. By June of 1999, the building stood in the corner of a sewage works; it had been vandalised, and was in very poor condition: see Image, an earlier picture showing it in that location. By June of 2000, the building had painstakingly been dismantled, moved one kilometre to its present site, and restored; it is now located on a much more accessible site, close to Mount Vernon railway station (the railway line runs across the background of the photo).
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Image Location
Latitude
55.84086
Longitude
-4.129313