This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lnordby3826 Surnames: Logan Love Frew Kilpatrick Yuille Ross McKean Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.ayr.general/1707.1728.2462.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Bill. http://www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk/Bibliography/monos/amr6.htm Cheers Linda Owned by Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. Number of houses. The Furnace Row is situated on the right hand side of the main road to Riccarton, about a stone throw from Hurlford railway station. It is owned by William Baird & Co., Ltd., and consists of 16 two apartment houses. Dimensions. The kitchen measures 12œ feet by 6 feet, the room being 11 feet by 6 feet. The rent is 8s 8d a month, inclusive of taxes. There are no fires to the rooms. Accommodation, closets, etc. There are two washing-houses at the far end, but they are in very bad repair. There are two dry-closets of two compartments each. The two at upper end had no doors when we saw them on 6th December, 1913, and were very filthy. We were told they were never used except by children. Those at the other end of the row were not much better, and rarely used. As one man put it, 'We are compelled to go to the fields, and may be taken up any day for trespassing.' Filthy ashpits. The two ashpits were in a horrible litter. We were told these places in Summer were 'hotchin with mauks', i.e., moving with maggots. Drying green. There arc six or seven coalhouses at the back, and running parallel with the backs of the houses is a high stone wall, 19 feet from the houses, in which space is the drying green so called. This space is littered with refuse and filth, the children evidently using it as a closet. Unpaved. The front paths are unpaved, but fairly clean. Water supply. There is a supply of gravitation water. Remarks. These houses are of a poor type, and the sanitary arrangements are abominable. [72] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.