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Title: Red Row, Plean
Post by: mag1966 on Sunday 03 February 13 13:14 GMT (UK)

Where in Plean were the Red Row Cottages?  Thanks

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 04 February 13 00:25 GMT (UK)

Hi

Can you give a timescale please

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: mag1966 on Monday 04 February 13 18:21 GMT (UK)

It was one of three rows of miners cottages in Plean.  I know they were there in 1901 census, don't know where in Plean or when they were knocked down.
mag

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: ev on Monday 04 February 13 19:16 GMT (UK)

One address given here is Red Row Plean(Alexander Henderson).
http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/285.html

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/primary/genericcontent_tcm4554366.asp

ev

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: SandyMcJ on Tuesday 05 February 13 09:29 GMT (UK)

Red Rows in East Plean are shown on OS map from 1920's available on NLS web site. Sheet is Stirlingshire Sheet n XXIII.NE Publication date: 1922   Date revised: 1913
 If I'm reading map correctly, there is photo of these (looking up Cadger's Loan) in Stirling Observer's 150th anniversary book published in 1992 and similar photo on the Observer's web site. The book has a wee rhyme associated with the picture:

'There's a little model village
The finest ever seen
It must have dropped from heaven
And the Government called it Plean'

Cheers

Sandy

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: mag1966 on Sunday 10 February 13 10:38 GMT (UK)

Thanks for all that, never thought of plean as a model village before.  :)

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: Redmoss52 on Sunday 11 October 15 12:28 BST (UK)

I was born in the end house in the top Red Row. They were old Miner's houses. They were all condemned and we were rehoused (when I was 4 years old, in 1956) in the new council estate - Wallace Crescent, Bruce Street etc.

They were rat infested by then and the pit was soon to be closed down. My dad was a miner at the time.

The Red Rows were across from The Miners' Welfare Club (Don't know if it still exists but was still very active in the 1970's

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: pwl1951 on Sunday 22 November 15 22:07 GMT (UK)

http://minutes.stirling.gov.uk/pdfs/planning/Reports/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20000094id.pdf

Link to what happened with Plean Miner`s Welfare Club.

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: Redmoss52 on Sunday 22 November 15 23:23 GMT (UK)

Very interesting post about the Miner's Welfare re-development - thanks for posting.

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: hagg1sr00ts on Tuesday 14 February 17 15:37 GMT (UK)

Photograph showing Red Rows on left side at bottom of Cadgers Loan. Extracted from book.

Title: Re: Red Row, Plean
Post by: hagg1sr00ts on Wednesday 15 February 17 15:12 GMT (UK)

Please refer to Red Rows Plean post, This photo is at the bottom of Cadgers Loan, your railway cottages would be at the top of the road in centre. Nowadays the area at the top of the road is occupied by Plean Precast cement company, they are nearby to Plean Country Park. Plean House is in here but is in a pretty dilapidated state.