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Durhamtown, Bathgate
« on: Wednesday 10 July 13 16:00 BST (UK) »
Does anyone have any info on this place which is where my gt gt gt grandparents were married in 1892
Robert Walker to Jane Shearer McNeill
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Re: Durhamtown, Bathgate
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 10 July 13 16:45 BST (UK) »
If you Google the question - this is one of the hits but there are others

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.britisles.scotland.wln.general/901.1/mb.ashx
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Re: Durhamtown, Bathgate
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 10 July 13 21:42 BST (UK) »
thanks Carole,
I had seen that one, just wondered if any 'locals' had any info

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Re: Durhamtown, Bathgate
« Reply #3 on: Friday 12 July 13 20:04 BST (UK) »
Hello Avril,

Durhamtown was a mining village about a mile south west of Bathgate. The Scottish Mining Site has a paragraph about the housing in the village.

www.scottishmining.co.uk

Mags

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Re: Durhamtown, Bathgate
« Reply #4 on: Friday 12 July 13 21:12 BST (UK) »
thanks Mags, sounds like pretty undesirable housing!
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Re: Durhamtown, Bathgate
« Reply #5 on: Friday 12 July 13 22:34 BST (UK) »
Mrs. A,
           Durahamtown Rows were the abode of workers for the Bathgate Chemical Works, the very first Oil Works in the world, extracting Oil from Shale by James (Parafin) Young and partners, it was situated just off the Whitburn Road on the way out of Bathgate, very near to present day Birniehill. You can look at maps here and read some history, the Old Rows are marked on one of the maps right next to the Chemical Works gates. There is a Google view of the area today, still a Manufacturing base.

 http://www.scottishshale.co.uk/GazWorks/BathgateChemicalWorks.html

James.
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