Uphall
Station Rows
coordinates:
55°55'3.37"N, 3°30'12.82"W
location: In the village
of Uphall Station, West Lothian, off the B8046.
former parish: Uphall
current
status:
site cleared and redeveloped for housing
date
constructed: c.1880
owner/builder: Uphall Oil
Co; Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co.from c 1885
"
At the Station Rows there are eighteen houses of two apartments,
and two houses of three apartments. There is no scullery
or washhouse for twelve of these houses, but coal-cellars,
and also dry-closets of a kind, are provided. Refuse is
removed weekly from ash-pits. Sewage is disposed of by open
channel. The rent is 2s. 5d. and 2s. 11d. per week respectively,
inclusive of local and county rates."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914
View
South from railway bridge over Pumpherston Road c.1922
Pumpherston Road, Uphall station, looking north towards railway
bridge. October 2009
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