Extract from http://www.glasgowhistory.co.uk/Books/Carmyle%20Recollections/Chapters/Housing%20Shops.htm

"Where Kenmuir Road is now, was an area of miner’s “raws” and well I remember old worthies living there. A pit was in front of these houses and I can remember fire doors being opened and shut. Along form the Boat Hoose was Granny Liddell’s house and then there was another little building with an outside stair at the back to a house above. The front was like a little hall and the Gospel was preached there. Then there was another three storey building and at the other end,  further back from the road, another row of whitewashed houses. I always remember one very small lady - she was so pretty-pretty. She wore round loop earrings and black velvet ribbon at her throat, with a cameo. I also remember her gold tooth. She used to row a small boat across the River Clyde to bring men home from the Power Station. When the river burst its banks, these houses, right up to the Boat Hoose, were flooded. The people in the top of the building were stranded too. I remember a big schoolboy taking the messages on a raft and using a pole to get him along."