Bridgend
Rows
coordinates:
55°57'50.30"N,
3°32'1.64"W
location: in the village
of Bridgend, West Lothian
former parish: Linlithgow
current
status:
some rows extant and occupied, others cleared and site redeveloped
for housing.
date constructed: c.1885
owner/builder: Linlithgow
Oil Co., then James Ross & Co.
"
At Bridgend (there are) some eighty-six houses, all owned
by Lord Rosebery, and leased to James Ross & Company,
of Philpstoun Oil Company. The
houses consist of room and kitchen. There are a few single
apartments. At Bridgend thirty-six houses have small sculleries.
One dry-closet is provided for every two tenants, and a
coal-cellar for each tenant, but there are no washhouses.
Water is supplied by stand-pipes. The rental is 1/9. for
single-apartment houses, and 2/6. for two-apartment houses,
inclusive of local and county rates. The Company remove
the refuse from dustbins every morning. The population of
Kingscavil and Bridgend is 802. A number of the houses are
empty, and many need repairs. In some cases the keeping
of too many lodgers leads to overcrowding. "
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914
Bridgend
Rows, October 2009
Auldhill
Rd. Bridgend, looking North. October 2009
"The
West Lothian County Council scheme to establish a new village
at Bridgend is progressing favourably. The new village is
being built alongside the old miner's rows at Bridgend, and
the population of the old Bridgend and also the people from
the neighbouring village of Kingscavil will be housed there."
Midlothian
Advertiser, 4th December 1936
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