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Uphall Station Rows

Parish:
Uphall, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
Built c.1880
Closed:
Station Rows demolished c.1957
Current status of site:
1960's / 70's housing built on site

See also - Stankard Rows, Uphall Station - White Rows, Uphall Station - Beechwood Cottages

Built by the Uphall Oil Company to house workers from Uphall Oil Works.

Uphall Station Rows appear to have consisted of two rows of two or three room homes at right angles to Pumpherston Road, close to Uphall railway station. Various terraced or semi-detached cottages were also built or purchased by Young's oil company, including No. 32, 34, 36 & 38 Pumpherston Road.

Evidence presented to the Royal Commission on Housing Conditions on 25th March 1914 stated:

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. .

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    • 178990 Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of John Marr. 0.045 acres at Uphall Station.
    • 183746 Undated plan of part of Uphall Station Road showing house numbers 30 to 38

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    • 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. White Row consists of 5 two-apartment houses, with scullery and washhouse, seven houses with kitchen, bed-room, scullery, and washhouse, also two single ends. The latter nine houses are of a very poor type. The sewage is removed by open channel. Ash-pits are emptied weekly. There are five privies of a deplorable pattern for fourteen families. Water is obtained from washhouses. Rents are 1/1. and 1/8. per week, inclusive of local rates.

      Theodore K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish Shale Field, 1914

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      Uphall Station: demolition completed in Pumpherston Road and Beechwood Road, except for clearing up of the site. Mr. Marr acquired the shop occupied by him and the two adjacent houses.

      Meeting held at Middleton Hall on 9th September 1958 to review position of house properties etc.


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    • 178990 - Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of John Marr. 0.045 acres at Uphall Station. Dated 1958. - Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of John Marr. 0.045 acres at Uphall Station. Dated 1958. (2 copies) Details the sale of an area of ground in the Parish of Uphall by Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited to John Marr for the sum of £50. Includes a plan referred to in the disposition with the property boundaries highlighted in black and red. The plan is undated and has a scale of 1/250. Feu Charter by Peter McLagan Esquire of Pumpherston, Member of Parliment to The Uphall Oil Company Limited. Dated 23rd April 1880. Details Peter McLagen agreeing to feu a piece of land part of the Lands of Stankards to the Uphall Oil Company Limited.
    • 183746 - Uphall Station Road - Undated plan of part of Uphall Station Road showing house numbers 30 to 38 next to the Hall with the bowling green adjacent to the back gardens. Also on the map is the wash house for house numbers 34, 36, 38. Hand written on the map in pen over house number 34 is the name 'W. McDowall £525' and over house number 32 'J. P. Denholm £3050'. The map highlights the electric cables, water pipes, drains and common access to the properties. The scale is 1inch to 20feet.