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Thursday, December 25, 2025

Port Dundas


 "Dookets" (or "doocots") is a Scottish word for a dovecote (a house for doves/pigeons).

During the 60s and  70s doocots were a familiar sight in working class schemes,usually made from wood and often looking like patchwork quilts with an odd assortment collection of wood.


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