Dalmeny
Rows
coordinates:
55°58'32.91"N,
3°22'34.86"W
location: on unclassified
track close to the village of Dalmeny, West Lothian
former parish: former
parish
current
status:
demolished during 1960's (t.b.c.) and site returned to agriculture
date
constructed: from c.1872
owner/builder: Dalmeny Oil
Co.
"At
Dalmeny there are 51 houses of two apartments, with scullery.
Coal cellars and dry closets are provided for each tenant,
but no wash-houses. Gravitation water is supplied by a few
stand-pipes. Drying space is provided. Refuse is removed
daily by the company. The rental for these houses is 3/6
week; inclusive of rates. There are also 21 single apartment
houses, with similar conditions to above, rental 1/9 per
week. Ashed pathways exist, and consequently, in wet weather
are in a very dirty condition. The appearance of the rows
are anything but inviting as a place of habitation for the
population of 434 persons."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
Site of Dalmeny Rows, viewed from the railway bridge looking
West. October 2009.
Rosshill Terrace, Dalmeny, close to Rosshill No.1 and 2 shale
mines, is sometimes described as "shale oil workers housing"
( http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-186-438-C).
It seems more likely that these houses were built by the Forth
Bridge Company to house their workforce.
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