Pumpherston, 91-93 Uphall Station Road, West Calder Cooperative Society
Commercial Premises (Period Unassigned), Shop (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pumpherston, 91-93 Uphall Station Road, West Calder Cooperative Society
Classification Commercial Premises (Period Unassigned), Shop (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Harrysmuir Road; The Store
Canmore ID 213429
Site Number NT06NE 53
NGR NT 06676 69329
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/213429
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Mid Calder
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County Midlothian
Pumpherston (South Village)
Built to house workers from the highly profitable oil works: those who could, stayed somewhere better like Mid Calder. The rest remained in miners' rows (originally brick, now harled) running at right angles from the road. The contrast between the condition of Pumpherston and that of Livingston New Town, barely yards to the west, is truly awesome. The adjacent village school, standing watchfully on the corner, will be replaced by a modern school at Drunshoreland as part of the proposed major expansion of Pumpherston and neighbouring Uphall Station. West Calder Co-operative, the only three-storey building in Pumpherston, occupies a corner site, its stumpy clock-tower defying decay.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
