The former site of Rosehead

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 30 Sep 2019

Rosehead: "a cottage, the property of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Company. Occupied by William [Easson]" [OS Name Books, c.1860]. The cottage is shown on OS maps from the first edition (1860) to at least 1936, though it is only named on the 1860 map. It was situated right next to a railway line, itself long gone; the line used to cross the River Leven by means of Image Rosshead, an area of housing nearby, presumably takes its name, by slight alteration, from the cottage. Another area of housing is directly to the west: Levenvale, which first appears on the 1936 map. That map is odd in that the street names it shows for Levenvale are wrong, with the exception of Argyll Street at the southern end. In a cyclic permutation of the other names, the 1936 map calls Hardie Street Engels Street; Engels Street Lansbury Street; Lansbury Street Burns Street; and Burns Street Hardie Street.

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