Woolfords
New Row
coordinates:
55°47'37.05"N,
3°35'8.44"W
location: Woolfords Village on unclassified road
to Auchengray, about five miles SE of West Calder.
former parish: Carnwath, Lanarkshire
current
status:
fully extant and occupied
date
constructed: c1910 to serve Woolfords Coal Pit
owner/builder: Pumpherston Oil Co.
1911 25" Ordnance Survey
Map; Lanarkshire XIV.2
"
These forty-six houses are the property of the Pumpherston
Oil Company. They are arranged in blocks of not more than
eight houses to the block. The houses consist of two rooms
and kitchen and scullery. There is a boiler and water-closet
in the scullery. The houses themselves, which are rented
at 4s. per week, are about the best we have visited ; but
there are no gardens or drying-greens. The water supply
is privately owned, and is not always adequate."
Evidence
presented to Royal Commission on Housing Conditions, 25th
March 1914
Woolfords
village, looking North from Tarbrax bing. September 2009.
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