"Redding Row, Polmont"

Maker
Unknown
Production date
Circa 1910
 Description
View of a miners' row with whitewashed walls and pantile roofs. The windows have external shutters. The roofs have gutters, and the rone pipes lead down to water butts by the front doors. A man is cycling along the unmetalled road.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Maker
Production date
Circa 1910
Subject place
Redding Row/Redding Rd/Redding/Polmont area
Subject notes
The water butts would supplement the supply from the well or standpipe in the road. The houses would have no running water when built, although it may have been put in later as the water butts had disappeared by the 1930s.
Accession number
P17729

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