Stankards
Rows
coordinates:
55°55'14.58"N,
3°30'23.58"W
location: between Uphall
Station and Uphall, West Lothian, off B8046
former parish: Uphall,
West Lothian.
current
status:
site cleared and now woodland.
date
constructed: c. 1866 ?
owner/builder: Uphall Mineral
Oil Co., Uphall Oil Co. then Young's PLMO Co. from 1885
"
Stankards Rows consist of six double- and thirty single-apartment
houses. There are no coal-cellars, washhouses, or sculleries.
Ash-pits and privies exist. The ash-pits are emptied at
irregular intervals, and are from 10 to 15 yards from houses.
Rents are 2/5 and 1/8 per week, inclusive of local and county
rates. These houses are of a very poor type."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
Details
from a photograph c. 1928 showing view north beneath Uphall
Station bridge. Stankards lay in the dip to the right of the
cyclist.
The McGraw family's fairwell party prior to emigrating to
Canada. Stankards 1925. Image courtesy of Stenlake Publishing
 Site
of Stankards rows, Uphall. October 2009.
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