A tenement collapses in the Old Town,…

November 1861 CE

A tenement collapses in the Old Town, Edinburgh (Scotland), killing thirty-five with fifteen survivors, on November 25, 1861. (In Scotland, tenement continues to be the most common word for a multiple-occupancy building, but elsewhere it is used as a pejorative in contrast to apartment building or block of flats.)

Tenements make up a large percentage of the housing stock of Edinburgh, dating from the seventeenth century onward, and some were up to fifteen stories high when first built, which made them among the tallest houses in the world at that time.


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