Woolfords
Row
coordinates:
55°47'40.16"N 3°35'3.30"W
location: just under
a mile South of the current Woolfords village
former parish: West
Calder
current
status:
site cleared and used as rough grazing
date
constructed: 1880's ? (t.b.c.)
owner/builder: rented to
Pumpherston Oil Co.
"
This property belongs to a farmer, Hamilton by name, but
is rented through the Pumpherston Company. There are twenty
houses built on the but-and-ben principle, back to back,
but occupied as single-apartment houses. Thus, two families
use the same doorway. The houses are rented weekly at 1s.
3d. There are also twelve double houses rented at 2s. 6d.
Water is supplied by one stand-pipe surrounded by a filthy
gutter. Sanitary accommodation consists of eight dry-closets
and four middens, which are in a deplorable state. There
are no coal-houses or washhouses. These are miserable hovels.
Evidence
presented to Royal Commission on Housing Conditions, 25th
March 1914
View from site of Woolfords Row, looking East towards the
Pentland Hills. October 2009.
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