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main image Miners' housing, Barrhill Rows, Twechar, Dunbartonshire
A group of superior houses for coal-miners' families built in the early 1900s.

Housing of this quality was noteworthy enough to feature in a 1911 Government report. The rows are well-spaced, with outhouses and drying greens, good drainage and a clean water supply.

The houses have a single bay frontage and a double pile layout. Most miners' rows came nowhere near this standard. From the 1920s onwards, flatted semi-detached housing was built in mining villages.


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