Red Row, Plean

[mag1966]

Where in Plean were the Red Row Cottages?  Thanks

[CaroleW]

Hi

Can you give a timescale please

[mag1966]

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

[ev]

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

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[SandyMcJ]

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

[mag1966]

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

[Redmoss52]

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

[pwl1951]

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

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

[Redmoss52]

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