Winchburgh
coordinates:
55°57'32.51"N,
3°27'25.00"W
location: In the village
of Winchburgh, West Lothian
former parish: Kirkliston
current
status:
extant and occupied
date
constructed: c1902 -
c1910
owner/builder: Oakbank Oil
Co.
"
The Oakbank Oil Company own over 230 houses built in rows
at Winchburgh. 161 houses consist of parlour (12 ft by 12
ft), kitchen (15 ft by 11 ft, also bed-recesses), bedroom
(12 ft by 10.5 ft), scullery with boiler, sink, water-closet,
and coal-cellar; height of rooms, 10.5 ft; rental, 4/6.
weekly, inclusive of rates. There are thirty houses with
room and kitchen with same conveniences as above houses,
rental 3/6; also fourteen houses of two apartments, but
larger in size, with all conveniences as above, cost 4/-
weekly, inclusive of rates. These are all houses of a good
type
There
is a good drainage and water supply. A few electric lamps
are erected at centre of rows. The refuse is deposited in
dustbins, which are emptied three times weekly. Drying greens
are provided, but no gardens Owing to the great scarcity
of houses, there are a considerable number of young married
couples living in rooms, and numerous cases of two families
living in one house exist. A dwelling-house has been converted
into billiard and reading rooms. In Winchburgh village there
are 313 houses in all, with a population of 1752."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
Winchburgh,
looking West from Niddy Castle bing
Winchburgh, viewed from Hopetoun bing, looking NW, 1950's.
Winchburgh
rows, viewed from the south. October 2009
Craigton Place, Winchburgh. October 2009.
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