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Title: Burns Home, Partick
Post by: puppygirl on Sunday 16 August 09 14:40 BST (UK)

Hi folks, I've just found a relative, Duncan McGuigan, listed as living at Burns Home, 83 Douglas Street, Partick, Glasgow on the 1901 Census.
He's listed as a Boarder along with lots of other men, all working.
I just wondered if anyone had heard of Burns Home, or can I assume it was just a big lodging house for men. Thanks

Title: Re: Burns Home, Partick
Post by: tabescent on Tuesday 23 October 12 13:09 BST (UK)

hi,

map from 1894 shows Douglas Street with a premises

Partick Home (Model Lodging House)

http://maps.nls.uk/townplans/view/?sid=74416526&mid=glasgow_2_centrewest#sid=74416526&mid=glasgow_2_centrewest&zoom=2&lat=5629.5&lon=8409&layers=BT

Title: Re: Burns Home, Partick
Post by: RJ_Paton on Wednesday 24 October 12 23:42 BST (UK)

The Burns company owned and operated a number of these premises
Have a read at this thread on another forum
http://www.talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14020
Basically they were privately run versions of the Model Lodging Houses