Albyn
Cottages
coordinates:
55°56'25.64"N,
3°28'15.86"W
location: close to the
town of Broxburn, West Lothian on B8027 to Winchburgh
former parish: Broxburn
current
status:
mostly extant and occupied
date
constructed: Uncertain. Some housing here c1870?.
owner/builder: laterly Young's
Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co. ?
Note:
It seems unlikely that the surviving housing that is pictured
and indicated on the map is not that described in the 1914
report. Further research is required.
"
Messrs Young's Oil Company own sixteen houses, mostly single
apartments, off Greendykes Road. There is no washhouse,
and one stand-pipe supplies the gravitation water. The sewage
is conveyed by a broken brick channel. The tenants have
built themselves wooden coal-cellars. There are two ash-pits
and two privies of a most objectionable character. A drying
green is provided. The rental is 1/3 weekly, inclusive of
rates."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914
Albyn
Cottages, Greendykes Rd. looking North, October 2009
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