IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
KILMARNOCK, KA3 6HS

A 1918 report described this miners' row as follows: "This row contains eighteen houses, and is situated on the back road from Galston to Kilmarnock, about 1 1/2 miles from Galston. Each house contains a kitchen, measuring approximately 14 feet by 13 feet, and two small rooms not much larger than cupboards. They measure approximately 8 feet by 6 feet. The houses are built of brick and face the main road. The row is formed of three blocks of houses, with six houses in each block. The windows are permanently fastened. The rent is 2s. 3d. per week. The floors are made of cement, and the walls are so damp that in one house we saw the wood of the set-in bed in the room had completely rotted and the mattress on the bed was completely destroyed. The pathways are unpaved and muddy. There are neither washing-houses nor coal-houses, and the people keep then coals below their kitchen beds. The closets and ash-pits are placed at the back of the houses. There are doors on the closets, but in one case the door had been broken off and the floor of the closet was littered with filth. There is one closet for every three tenants. The row is supplied with gravitation water. The houses have been leased by Messrs Kyle, coalmasters, Burnbank Colliery, Galston, and are mostly inhabited by their workers and families."

Cessnock Water and the River Irvine meetings

Looking downstream between Galston and Hurlford. Accessing the bank wasn't easy with so much tall vegetation and several small flood channels.