Author Douglas Stuart on Glasgow’s ‘doocot’ culture

The Booker winner on the DIY pigeon lofts that gave the inhabitants of Glasgow’s estates something to call their ownI grew up in the east end of Glasgow and most working-class Glaswegians have seen a doocot. My family moved often, and we lived in a variety of council housing: from the modernist, brutalist, high-rise towers of Sighthill, to the pre-sandblasted, soot-soaked tenements. No matter what housing scheme we lived on, if you walked to its edges, you would usually find a doocot built