Tarbrax
New Rows incorporating Tarbrax Old Rows
coordinates:
55°46'48.95"N,
3°33'5.45"W
location: Tarbrax village, Lanarkshire
former parish: Carnwath, Lanarkshire
current
status:
mainly extant and occupied
date
constructed: c. 1905 - c.1915
owner/builder: Tarbrax Oil Co., then Pumpherston Oil
Co. from c1910
Note:
New Rows are not shown on this map from 1911, and were constructed
to the East of the football ground.
"
Some 126 houses consist of room, kitchen, and scullery,
with boiler, sink, and coal- cellar, and a water-closet
for each tenant. The rents range from 2/10 to 3/3 weekly.
There are also 120 houses consisting of room, attic, kitchen,
scullery, with sink and boiler, and a water-closet for every
two houses. The rental of this type of house is 4/- per
week, inclusive of rates.
A
great number of the houses have cement pavement between
each house. Some have gardens, with clothes poles at each
corner, while others have greens surrounded by small wooden
railings. There is a good drainage system, but the sewage
is disposed of in a field much too near the village, and
the prevailing winds carry a most objectionable smell over
the village. The main street is lighted by the Company,
and refuse is removed by them also. An Institute, with reading
room, library, and rooms for games, is provided. The workers
pay 1d. per week for its maintenance. Forty new houses have
just been completed, which makes a total of 296. The population
is 1571. "
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
Tarbrax
New Rows c.1910.
Tarbrax New Rows, February 2010.
Tarbrax
Village, looking South from Tarbrax bing. September 2009
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