Editing Rosyth (section)

== Building Rosyth ==
[[File:Rosyth, Admiralty Road.jpg|alt=Garden-city style houses in Admiralty Road, Rosyth.|thumb|Garden-city style houses in Admiralty Road, Rosyth.  Built by the SNHC.]]
[[File:Rosyth - geograph.org.uk - 407909.jpg|thumb|302x302px|Houses in Rosyth]]
The fifteenth century [[Rosyth Castle]] stands on the perimeter of the dockyard complex, at the entry to the ferry terminal, and was once surrounded by the Firth of Forth on almost all sides, until land reclamation by the docks in the early 1900s.

The Scottish National Housing Company (SNHC) was a [[Public utility|public utility company]] set up in 1915 to provide houses for employees at Rosyth naval dockyard; shares were taken by Dunfermline town council with the [[Public Works Loan Board]] lending the money.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=31 July 1915 |title=Rosyth Town Planning Scheme |pages=12 |work=The Scotsman }}</ref> Work on building housing for the dockyard workers had been delayed due to disagreements between the Admiralty and Dunfermline council about who should take financial responsibility (1909–15).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Swenarton |first=Mark |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7987677 |title=Homes fit for heroes : the politics and architecture of early state housing in Britain |date=1981 |publisher=Heinemann Educational Books |isbn=0-435-32994-4 |location=London |pages=44–47 |oclc=7987677}}</ref>  Some workers were accommodated in temporary huts called East and West Bungalow village and nicknamed 'tin town'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Begg |first=Tom |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23901309 |title=50 special years : a study in Scottish housing |date=1987 |publisher=H. Melland |others=Scottish Special Housing Administration |isbn=0-907929-14-1 |location=London |pages=44–46 |oclc=23901309}}</ref>

From the first proposals for a new settlement at Rosyth, it was suggested it should be developed along [[Garden city movement|Garden City]] lines.<ref>{{Cite web |last=JKW |date=2022-10-24 |title=Rosyth Garden town |url=https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/rosyth-garden-town/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=The Past and other Places |language=en-GB}}</ref>  The town planning scheme was passed in 1915 and the first houses were occupied in 1916.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2024-12-12 |title=Rosyth Dockyard: Naval Engineering Hub |url=https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/infrastructure-projects/rosyth-dockyard |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) |language=en}}</ref>  [[Raymond Unwin]] was appointed advisor to the Admiralty. Rosyth became the largest of the permanent First World War housing schemes in Scotland.<ref name=":1" />  Unwin's assistant Alfred Hugh Mottram worked on the layout and became the SNHC's main architect, designing over 1,400 cottage-style houses.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (November 2, 2022, 2:42 pm) |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=300003 |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=www.scottisharchitects.org.uk}}</ref>  Mottram also designed the B-listed Rosyth Parish Church (1930).<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 March 2000 |title=Queensferry Road, Rosyth Parish Church |url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB46945 |access-date=2 Nov 2022 |website=Historic Environment Scotland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=sct-admin |date=2017-09-24 |title=Rosyth Parish Church |url=https://scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/rosyth-parish-church/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=Scotlands Churches Trust |language=en-GB}}</ref>
[[File:Rosyth Parish Church.jpg|alt=B-listed Rosyth parish church designed for the Garden suburb by Hugh A Mottram in 1930.|thumb|B-listed Rosyth parish church designed for the Garden suburb by Hugh A Mottram in 1930.]]