India Street, Alexandria

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 29 Nov 2010

For earlier photographs, taken by another contributor, see Image and Image As noted in the first of those items, this housing was built for workers in the neighbouring print and dye works, on which, see Image See http://www.valeofleven.org.uk/indiastreet.html (at the Vale of Leven website) for an article that explains the connection with India, and which provides more information on the industry that was carried on here. That article also includes a picture of Red Row, which preceded India Street. The booklet "The Old Vale and the New" (Jones/Hopner, 1981) contains a photograph of "Linnbrane, Alexandria c.1963"; it mentions India Street, and adds that "an ancient terrace called 'Red Row' was demolished in 1891 to make way for these eight new sandstone terraced houses". Also visible in that photograph is a line of buildings which occupied the roadside, now empty, shown in the lower-right part of my photograph. This was Linnbrane Terrace; there were also some houses on the facing side of the road (the near left, in my photograph); the booklet notes that all of these buildings were torn down in 1976.

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