The coal at Jawcraig was worked by the Scott family in the 1860s. The colliery and the poor quality miners’ rows were taken over by J & C Alexander but conditions did not improve much. A description of the houses at Laigh Jawcraig by a Glasgow Herald reporter in 1875 highlighted the squalid damp conditions and also noted that
“One of the houses is used as a school-room, and the back of it will not bear description.”
There were twenty other houses in the row with either single or double rooms. In January 1881 the children of the row were entertained to tea in the schoolroom to help celebrate a wedding in the owner’s family. There were 25 pupils at that time. The school appears to have closed shortly afterwards and in 1885 it was reported that the houses in the row were out of repair and there were only a few families living there.
Sites & Monuments Record
| Jawcraig School | SMR 2276 | NS 8545 7500 |
Falkirk Local History Society 