Park Avenue, East Calder

Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 4 Nov 2021

Park Avenue is a very short dead-end street, though there is one of those triangular metal gates designed to stop vehicles at the end of it. The gate leads to the park. All the white walls are on the backs of houses whose official addresses are Main Street, although only the houses on the far left of the picture are actually on it. The terraced row occupying the bulk of the picture is made up of five houses - 49 to 57 Main Street - and they can be accessed through a gap past the hedge at the end, or further along the main road. I had a nose, as I seem to have developed a thing lately about jumbled up old houses just off main roads, and was pleased to see there was the obligatory mysteriously large old brick outbuilding there too. According to the maps the terraced houses, along with their square jutty-out bits, were built at some point between 1893 and 1905.

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