Pottery Buildings, Cleland

[Br1gau]

Hi,

The Pottery Buildings in Cleland have turned up as a residential address from the time of the 1911 census until about 1927.  I have not found any information or images on the web about this.  Were they purpose built as dwelling houses or converted from the Cleland Pottery itself which closed in 1911?

brigyn

[sancti]

Possibly purpose built for the workers at the pottery which continued to be used as accomodation when the pottery closed

[MonicaL]

The Pottery Buildings show as residential accomodation in 1901...a number of households show there that year (civil parish Holytown).

Monica 

[Br1gau]

Thank you both for that.

It does look as if they were purpose built housing if they appear as dwellings in 1901 also.

brigyn

[KneClel]

Hi

Cleland Pottery Buildings were on Cleland Estate side of the tillan burn opp Omoa Square  and just north east of Whitecraighead.
Copy and paste this link which take you to National Library of Scotland Maps.
http://geo.nls.uk/search/#zoom=6&lat=56.71138&lon=-4.9&layers=B00000FFFFFFFTFFFT
1. Choose a map series: OS 6 inch - 1892-1960
Then click on sheet below new window open up
Lanarkshire Sheet XII.SE
Surveyed/Revised: 1896, Published: 1899
Lanarkshire Sheet XII.SE
Surveyed/Revised: 1910, Published: 1913

Which shows Pottery not sure if there were any house on pottery grounds so people would have lived in Cleland ( pronounced Cleeland and not Clelland) or in Omoa

Village takes its name from my family Cleland of that Ilk Cleland is softed from Kneeland ( K was ponounced )
if you are near to Motherwell go to Motherwell heritage centre where you well find maps and Wishaw Press about the fire that closed down Cleland pottery.


Cleland

[sancti]

All the residents that I know who live there say they come from CLELLAND and not CLEELAND

[KneClel]

They are all incomers and wrong they are not family as I'm Cleland, we pronounce it as Cleeland the softed from Kneeland ( Knieland Kneland)
you don't say Clevelland or Lelland do you. its Cleveland and Leland. 

Cleland

[sancti]

You've lost me 

[Br1gau]

Thank you for the map links - always good to have.

brigyn

Here in another Celtic country we would say Clelland, but then what would we know, we just play rugby!