![]() The houses are built of an inferior-looking yellowish brick, and the walls are neither whitewashed nor cemented. The first block contains 6 two-apartment houses and one single-apartment house. Kirkland Rows, Springside, Parish of Dreghorn The houses have been leased by Messrs Kyle, coalmasters, Burnbank Colliery, Galston, and are mostly inhabited by their workers and families.ฤก4. The row is supplied with gravitation water. There is one closet for every three tenants. 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. The closets and ash-pits are placed at the back of the houses. ![]() There are neither washing-houses nor coal-houses, and the people keep then coals below their kitchen beds. 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 row is formed of three blocks of houses, with six houses in each block. The houses are built of brick and face the main road. They measure approximately 8 feet by 6 feet. ![]() Each house contains a kitchen, measuring approximately 14 feet by 13 feet, and two small rooms not much larger than cupboards. ![]() ![]() This row contains eighteen houses, and is situated on the back road from Galston to Kilmarnock, about 1 1/2 miles from Galston. ![]()
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