The Doocots of Yoker

Doocot. Just a shortened version of Dovecote, a Scots version that does away with all those unnecessary consonants.
I think we're all familiar with the doocots attached to Scottish castles, like the wonderful example attached to Newark Castle in Port Glasgow. But what are they?
Doocots, or dovecotes, were small buildings constructed to house doves, or pigeons. They were generally part of castles or grand houses, where the pigeons could be used for both eating and a source of feathers.
Today, all over Glasgow, men have been constructing doocots in unused bits of spare ground. But why?
In this brief video we wander along the Glasgow to Balloch cycle path, once a railway line, in the direction of Yoker, and discover a rebellious sense of freedom in an area that has lost its past. For Yoker sits between the shipbuilding areas of Clydebank and Whiteinch, and in the absence of much of that industry Yoker, like many places in Scotland and around the UK, is struggling.
But the good people of Yoker aren't about to let a little thing like the loss of shipbuilding get them down. The men of Yoker want to build things. And so they have built doocots.
A brief insight into a fascinating architectural facet of human nature.
MUSIC: 'Ruthless' by NEFFEX, courtesy of KZhead's Audio Library.
Music by NEFFEX can be heard in his own KZhead channel at:
/ @neffexmusic