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Laura Ferguson

Who lived in your west end home 200 years ago? Website reveals historic residents

Glasgow's streets are filled with endless amounts of history - and the west end has some of the city's most fascinating hidden stories.

Now, a website has been created to bring that forgotten past back to life, by offering an insight into the previous residents of west end tenements - going back nearly 200 years.

The list of addresses and their historic occupants currently dates from 1836 to 1915.  The website, which is still a work in progress, is hoping that the database will help fill in the blanks in family histories, or just give a greater insight into the people that once lived in the west end of Glasgow.

The website's introduction reads: "Welcome to the site that will tell you all about who lived in the address that you are interested in, whether it is the house you live in, the house next door, or whether you are engaged in researching a street or district. This site will, in time, inform you of the occupants of the house, who they were, what they did, how long they stayed at the address, where they worked.

"Work is in progress to compile a full register of West End Addresses such that by means of a simple search facility, it will be possible to trace the flittings of an individual over a number of years, or to search for a person to complete an entry in a family history, or just to establish whether a person stayed in the West End."

If you're address hasn't yet made it onto the site, make sure to check back regularly as it's constantly being updated by the team.

To take a look at the database and search for an address, visit the website here .

Happy hunting, west enders!

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