Description
The Missing Inkerman Mining Village Renfrewshire: Its miners, staff & their families
Close to White’s Bridge, Candren Road, on the outskirts of Ferguslie Park was the site of the ironstone mining community of Inkerman. Built during the 1850’s by the Merry and Cunninghame Ironmaster’s Company, the village consisted of five rows of houses, known locally as “raws”, a school and a grocer’s shop. The single story houses were illuminated with candles and paraffin lamps and heated with coal fires. Merry and Cunninghame went into liquidation just before the second world war, due to the decline of the ironstone industry. The village was put up for sale, but there were no buyers, and the buildings were demolished. The occupants were rehoused in Linwood and Elderslie.
The village was named after the indecisive battle in the Crimean War, fought on 5th November 1854. Many of the British soldiers who fought there were from the Paisley area.
This book includes an account of the history of the village, extracts from directories for Paisley, school attendance records for Inkerman School, and transcriptions from the decennial census records for the years 1851 to 1911.
