View from NE showing ENE and NNW fronts of privy with another privy in background

Description View from NE showing ENE and NNW fronts of privy with another privy in background

Date 24/8/1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 681083

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Miners' Rows, Skares, East Ayrshire This was the last of the long brick miners' rows built by the Eglinton Iron Co to house miners in the ironstone and coal pits serving their Lugar Iron Works. The village of Skares was built in connection with Whitehill 1 and 2 Colliery, sunk in about 1893, and this row probably dated from around then. This shows two of the wash house and privy blocks on the left. The row is out of sight to the right. In this row there seem to have been individual privies for each house, with a central wash house shared by several families sandwiched between rows of privies. The Eglinton Iron Co was noted for its use of very long rows to house its miners. The longest served the Common Pit on Aird's Moss, to the east of Lugar, and contained 99 dwellings. The houses at Skares were small, but well-built, hence their survival into the mid-1960s. However, they were demolished soon after this photograph was taken. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/30/11

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