This rather odd little building squashed between two tenements on Cressy Street in the Linthouse area of Glasgow was originally built in the early 1900s as the Cressy Halls.

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Die „Hausfrauen-Wohnungsgesellschaft“ besetzte leere Wohnungen mit Streikposten und hinderte Neumieter*innen am Betreten. Wenn sich Verwalter*innen oder die Polizei näherten, schlug eine Frau Alarm – mit Glocken, Trommeln, Tröten oder Pfeifen. pinkstinks.de/mary-barbour... #MaryBarbour

🗣We spoke to Govan community groups about what a modern #MaryBarbour might campaign for today, & their ideas informed the mural – especially the placard slogans: #DeedsNotWords #Equality4All #AffordableHousingisaRight

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📣 Check the NEW MURAL in Govan honouring Mary Barbour as a modern #activist! 🔥

🤓📚We shared our research on #MaryBarbour to artist Jeks, highlighting MB's key role in the 1915 Govan Rent Strikes.

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TOP–Mural by @jeks_nc on Govan Rd
BELOW–1915 #RentStrike at 10 Hutton Dr from our archive

This brilliant new mural on Govan Road in Glasgow is of Mary Barbour, a Scottish political activist and social policy pioneer of the early 20th Century. She first made a name for herself leading the rent strikes of 1915.

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