Bygone News - Nelson Street http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/591/0 en Tenement Life http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/tenement-life <p>Immediately after the Second World War my Aunt lived in a tenement exactly like the model on display at the Central Library, Dundee. It had been an abandoned building, a “backland” in Nelson Street, but such was the need for more housing after the war that this and other buildings like it were hastily done up for homeless people.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/tenement-life"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> Nelson Street 1940's Housing Neighbours Pletties Margaret Manning Hilltown Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:54:20 +0000 lynne.davidson 998 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk