Daldowie Doocot

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. 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).