Deans
Cottages
coordinates:
55°54'0.59"N,
3°35'10.83"W
location: in the Deans
district of Livingston, West Lothian
former parish: Livingston
parish
current
status:
demolished c 1960 ? site cleared and now beneath the M8
date
constructed: c1870 (estimated)
owner/builder: West Lothian
Oil Co., laterly leased to the Pumpherston Oil Co.
Deans Cottages, looking NW from
Deans Bing, 1953.
"In
Deans there are 36 house leased to the Pumpherston Oil Co.
24 houses consist of room and kitchen, and 12 have an attic
in addition. Rental for the former is 2/9, and for the latter
is 3/3 per week, inclusive of rates. Coal cellars are provided,
but no wash-houses. The house form three sides of a square.
Three stand-pipes supply the water. Clothes poles are erected.
Privies and ashpits are in the centre of the square. Sewage
is by open channel in front of the houses."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
Site
of Deans Cottages, looking S.W. October 2009
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