Mossend
coordinates:
55°51'21.64"N,
3°34'16.29"W
location: on minor road
between West Calder and Livingston, West Lothian.
former parish: West
Calder
current
status:
cleared c1965. Site now used for rough grazing.
date
constructed: c.1870.
owner/builder: Young's Paraffin
Light and Mineral Oil Co.
"There
are 140 double-apartment houses. The water is supplied by
four stand-pipes. The rental is 2/3 per week, inclusive
of rates. There are no coal cellars, wash-houses, or sculleries.
Dry privies exist, but are practically public nuisances.
The refuse is removed weekly by the Oil Company. The sewage
is disposed of in an open channel. There is a contrast in
black and white about these houses - the gables are blackened
with tar, whilst the fronts and backs of the house are whitewashed."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
1-62 Front St. Mossend, photographed in 1965. ©Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
View
N.W. along the route of Mid St, Mossend towards Five Sisters
Bing. October 2009
View
South towards West Calder along Front St. Mossend. October
2009
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