Beechwood
Cottages
coordinates:
55°55'5.48"N,
3°30'3.59"W
location: in
Uphall station village, West Lothian
former parish:
Uphall.
current
status:
site cleared and reused for housing
date
constructed:
Probably c 1880 (to be confirmed)
owner/builder: Young's
Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co.
"
Beechwood Cottages consist of thirty-four houses, each having
room, kitchen, scullery and washhouse, coal-cellar, and
dry-closet. There is a small garden in front of these cottages.
Gravitation water is got from the washhouse. The refuse
is removed weekly from ash-pits. The rent is 3/2 weekly,
inclusive of rates."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
Lamp
oil delivery to Beechwood Cottages. c. 1920
Beechwood Grove, Uphall, on the site of Beechwood Cottages.
October 2009.
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