BP Archive (Numerical list)
217145: Disposition - No 4 Abercorn Place, Winchburgh
Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of Agnes Dickson or Long and Another No 4 Abercorn Place, Winchburgh; at a cost of £250, with feuduty of £2 10s 9d; dated 31st December 1968. Includes a scaled plan of 4 Abercorn Place with area edged in red. Scale 1/2500.217146: Disposition - No 2 Abercorn Place, Winchburgh
Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of Norman John Fox Mitchell No 2 Abercorn Place, Winchburgh; at a cost f £510, with a feuduty of £2 10s 9d; dated 17th October 1966. Includes a scaled plan of 2 Abercorn Place with area edged in red. Scale 1/2500.217147: Grant of Servitude by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of George Wimpey and Company Limited.
Grant of Servitude by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of George Wimpey and Company Limited; of rights of access over roadway leading from the Edinburgh-Glasgow Road to ground acquired by the said George Wimpey & Co Limited at Uphall. Dated 18th December 1942.217148: Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of George Wimpey and Company Limited.
Photocopy relating to Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of George Wimpey and Company Limited, for 2.004 acres of Loaninghill, part of the lands of Strathbrock, West Lothian; .at a cost of £2,750, for passing through electricty cables; Includes a scaled plan of new roads, Uphall Oil Works and Middleton Hall.217149: Feu Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of West Calder District Council. Dated 1955.
Feu Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of West Calder District Council, relating to 1.58 acres, part of the Farm of Burngrange, West Calder; at a cost of £30 per annum for a children's playground; dated 30th May 1955. Includes a plan of proposals with the area highlighted in red.217150: Discharge by Meyer Oppenhiem in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited. Dated 28th November 1953.
Discharge by Meyer Oppenhiem in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited for the cost of £175, 13s, 0d; being compensation in lieu of restoration of ground occupied by railway at East Binny; dated 28th November 1953; detailing the removal of rails, sleepers and acessories.217151: Assignation by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of the Central Land Board.
Assignation by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of the Central Land Board; in respect of the depreciation of land values to be made by the Treasury; dated 15th March 1954217152: Wayleave Agreement between South East Scotland Electricity Board and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited.
Wayleave Agreement between South East Scotland Electricity Board and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; relating to Briestonhill House, West Calder; dated 21st November 1953. Includes a scaled plan detailing overhead lines and underground cables at Briestonhill House. Scale 1/250.217153: Feu Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of William Henderson Muirhall Cottages, Addiewell, West Calder.
Copy relating to Feu Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of William Henderson Muirhall Cottages, Addiewell, West Calder; at a cost of £600; dated 29th October 1953.217154: Discharge by Miss Alice Muriel Thom in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited
Discharge by Miss Alice Muriel Thom in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; of all claims in respect of damaged ground and buildings on termination of Lease of Limefield Minerals; dated 1953.217155: Agreement and associated papers between South East Scotland, Electricity Board and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited Site for [...]
Agreement and associated papers between South East Scotland, Electricity Board and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited Site; for electricity sub-station near Muirhall Mains Farm, Addiewell; dated 10th March 1953. Includes a scale plan of proposed sub station area lined in red. Scale 1/2500.217156: Feu Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of Archibald MacNicol.
Feu Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of Archibald MacNicol; relating to Burnbrae Cottage, West Calder, part of the lands of Tennants March and Burnbrae; dated 1953. Includes a plan showing the area highlighted in red.217157: Discharge by the Trustees of the late John Young in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited.
Discharge by the Trustees of the late John Young in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; in respect of all claims in respect of damaged ground on termination of Lease of Polbeth minerals; dated 1950.217158: Undated plan of Lease of Polbeth Minerals
Undated plan of Lease of Polbeth Minerals; terminated Whitsunday 1948217159: Duplicate Extract Registered Deed of Trust by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited.
Duplicate Extract Registered Deed of Trust by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; produced following the death of 15 employees at Burngrange Pit. Dated 21st October 1947.217160: Feu Disposition of Ground at Addiewell 1880
Feu Disposition of Ground at Addiewell by James Young, Esquire; in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; dated 13th January 1880. Includes a plan depicting the area highlighted in red.217161: Discharge by James George Stirling Barr in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited for compensation in lieu of [...]
Discharge by James George Stirling Barr in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; for compensation in lieu of restoration of damaged ground on Rosebank Farm; dated 18th September 1946. Includes a plan detailing the lands of Rosebank217162: Copy of Lease between Coal Commission and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited relating to coal in the lands of Loganlea and [...]
Copy of Lease between Coal Commission and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limite; relating to coal in the lands of Loganlea and Baads in Parish of West Calder and County of Midlothian; dated 1946.217163: Correspondence re Lease between Coal Commission and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited relating to coal in the lands of [...]
Correspondence re Lease between Coal Commission and Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited; relating to coal in the lands of Loganlea and Baads in Parish of West Calder and County of Midlothian; dated 1955.217164: Correspondence and agreements relating to Tennants March and Burnbrae.
File containing correspondence and a series of agreements (leases etc) relating to Tennants March and Burnbrae; dated April 1867 to 27th August 1956 Includes a plan of the Burnbrae and Tennants March estate, dated 1945.217165: Agreement between the National Coal Board and Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited regarding the working of Baads No 42 Mine [...]
Agreement between the National Coal Board and Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited; regarding the working of Baads No 42 Mine in the Parish of West Calder, Midlothian; dated 1949. Also included is a range of correspondence.217166: Wayleave between Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Ltd and South East Scotland Electricity Board for overhead and underground [...]
Wayleave between Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Ltd and South East Scotland Electricity Board; for overhead and underground electric cable across our lands at Addiewell, West Calder; dated 1951.217167: Disposition by the Trustees of the late John Young in favour of Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited. Dated 1949.
Disposition by the Trustees of the late John Young in favour of Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited; relating to 7.703 acres part of Polbeth Estate; dated 1949. Includes a plan of Polbeth Estate with the relevant area highlighted in red, and dated 1948.217168: Wayleave Agreement between the South East Scotland Electricity Board and Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited. Dated from 1949 [...]
Wayleave for our head electric cable across our farm lands of East Whitesykes, carrying current to our agricultural houses nearby. Folder contains the original agreement, dated 23rd September 1949 and the correspondence between the SSEB and Youngs from 1970 discussing and agreeing to the installation of a new line alongside the first. Accompanied by two 1:2500 scale maps. The first, dated 22nd September 1949 shows the existing line in blue and the proposed new line in red. The second, dated 21st May 1970 showing the existing line in black with the proposed line in red.217169: Agreement between Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited and James Smith. Dated 7th & 13th January 1942
Let of part of field on Farm of Burngrange. Dated 7th & 13th January 1942, the agreement leases 5 acres of a field on the farm to James Smith of Addiewell Farm for a period of four years with entry at Martinmas 1941 for the sum of £7 per annum.217170: Duplicate lease between James Young and Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited. Dated 28th & 31st March 1941.
Lease of shale in part of lands of Westfield, West Calder. The lease, bound with blue thread, is dated 28th & 31st March 1941. Accompanied by a 1:1250 scale map titled Westfield minerals in West Calder, showing the area bounded by the West Calder Burn in the north, Main Street, West Calder in the south, the lands of Burngrange in the west and the road from West Calder to Addiewell in the east, the whole of this area being outlined in green. The parts of this area which are not covered by this lease are outlined in blue, and the parts where the surface is leased to the London Midland Scotland Railway are outlined in red. The lease is to run for fifteen years fr0m Martinmas 1939.217171: Deed of Servitude by James Kerr Hamilton and Spouse with consent ut intus in favour of Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited. [...]
Of wayleave for electric cable through subjects, Primrose Cottage, Winchburgh. The deed, bound in blue thread, is dated 16th & 26th September 1938, the deed records the sale of a subterranean route for a power cable through the garden of Primrose Cottage. A plan is included at a scale of roughly 1:240. Titled Plan referred to, it shows the public highway in buff, Primrose Cottage in pink and the power cable in blue.217172: Discharge and Charter of Novodamus by Thomas Durham Weir Esquire in favour of Edward William Binney, James Young and Edward Meldrum. Dated 31st [...]
relating to subjects at Bathgate. Sewn with mauve thread, the document is dated 31st December 1864 and 1st January 1865.217173: Disposition and Feu Disposition by James Young Esquire with consent within mentioned in favour of Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company [...]
relating to subjects at Bathgate and at Addiewell. Printed document, dated 29th January and 4th February 1867, registered 30th September 1871. It records the sale by James Young of properties at Bathgate and Addiewell to Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company (Limited), for the sum of £165,666/9/10.217174: Minute of Lease between Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited and Robert Barrie. Dated 15th & 23rd May 1936.
relating to part of lands of Breichmill, Burnhouse, Tennants March and Clovenfordykes. Dated 15th & 23rd May 1936, the lease covers properties totalling 36.486 acres close to the Breich Water. A 1:2500 scale plan, titled This is the plan referred to accompanies the document. It shows the areas leased in green, the public road in buff, the ands of Burnhouse edged in blue, and the lands of Tenants March edged in red.217175: Minute of Agreement of Wayleave between Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited and the Lothians Electric Power Company. Dated [...]
over the lands of Breichmill and Muirhall mains. Sewn with pink thread and dated 24th & 28th October 1932, the document gives the Lothians Electric Power Co. permission to construct power lines across these lands. A map is included at a scale of 208.33 feet to 1 inch (ie 1:2500) showing the route of the proposed power lines in red. A later map at the same scale shows a proposed construction of an overhead line in the same area. Two further documents show the annual payments received by the company for this wayleave. The first, dated 13th January 1945, shows the annual payment at £1/14/6, and the second, dated 18th October 1959 shows it at £2/11/10.217176: Disposition by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of Monica Campbell. Dated 1962. Plan dated January 1962.
Photocopy relating to farm and lands of Burngrange, West Calder. Dated 1962, the document is accompanied by a 1:2500 scale plan dated 5th January 1952 showing the Farm of Burngrange and Easter Burngrange in pink, with a red edge, with field 1177, where the company's facilities are, edged in green. This is not the plan referred to in the document, however, which should also show the lands of Breichmill in pink with yellow edging.217177: Excerpt from conveyance Miss Elizabeth Houston Douglas of Baads in favour of the Caledonian Railway Company. dated 27th May and 5th June 1868.
Typed copy of the extract with detailed plan. The extract dated 27th May and 5th June 1868 concerns the obligation of thye railway company to construct and maintain bridges and access roads on the Baads estate near Burngrange. A 1:2500 map shows the roads in yellow and the railway company land edged orange.217178: Claim form, Central Land Board. Claim for payment in respect of depreciation of land values. J C &A Steuart, W S for Viscount Chilston. Dated [...]
Typed claim form relating to lands at Baads. Dated 29th June 1949.217179: Disposition by the Right Honourable Eric Alexander Akers Douglas, Viscount Chilston of Boughton Malherbe and Baron Douglas of Baads with consent [...]
parts of lands at Baads. Dated 1950, the document refers to 4 plans, of which only III & IV remain attached. Plan III shows a property of 0.176 acres by the West Calder Burn at a scale of 1:1000. Plan IV shows a property of 2869 square yards along the verges of the road between Ayr & West Calder at a scale of 1:2500. In both cases, the properties concerned are shown in pink.217180: Assignation by Edward Meldrum and George Simpson to the Uphall Mineral Oil Company and partners thereof. Dated 16th & 23rd October 1867.
Assignation by Edward Meldrum and George Simpson to the Uphall Mineral Oil Company and partners thereof. Dated 16th & 23rd October 1867.217181-1: Building lease between Peter McLagan Esquire of Pumpherston Mill and Edward Meldrum Esquire and George Simpson Esquire
Building lease between Peter McLagan Esquire of Pumpherston Mill and Edward Meldrum Esquire and George Simpson Esquire. Dated 16th, 18th & 19th September 1867.217181-2: Building lease between Peter McLagan Esquire of Pumpherston Mill and Edward Meldrum Esquire and George Simpson Esquire
Building lease between Peter McLagan Esquire of Pumpherston Mill and Edward Meldrum Esquire and George Simpson Esquire. Dated 16th & 19th September 1867.217182: Assignation by the Uphall Mineral Oil Company Limited and Liquidators thereof in favour of Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company [...]
Relating to buildings lease of subjects at Staut and Uphall. Bound with red thread and dated 22nd December 1884.217183: Extract Registered Renunciation by Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of The Pumpherston Estates Limited. Dated [...]
of building lease of ground at Uphall to extent of 10.22 acres. This document, bound with pink thread, dated 16th November 1942 and registered 18th December 1942 includes a plan of the property concerned at a scale of 1:1600.217184: Feu Disposition by the Pumpherston Estates Limited in favour of George Wimpey & Company Limited. Dated 28th December 1954.
relating to 3.26 acres of ground at Uphall. Dated 28th December 1954. Refers to a plan not now present.217185: Extract Registered Renunciation by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of the Pumpherston Estates Limited. Dated 29th [...]
of building lease of ground at Uphall to extent of 3.26 acres. The document , sewn with white thread, is dated 29th September 1954, and was registered 5th October 1954. Includes a plan of the property at a scale of 1:2500.217186-1: Renunciation by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of the Pumpherston Estates Limited
of building lease of ground at Uphall to extent of .238 acre. Dated 28th November 1958, the document includes a plan at a scale of 1:2500 showing the property within the context of Uphall and another at a scale of 1:480 showing it in more detail.217186-2: Renunciation by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of the Pumpherston Estates Limited
of building lease of ground at Uphall to extent of .238 acre. Sewn with white thread and dated 28th November 1958, the document includes a plan at a scale of 1:2500 showing the property within the context of Uphall, and another at a scale of 1:480 showing it in more detail.217187: Renunciation by Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited in favour of the County Council of the County of West Lothian. Dated 18th [...]
of building lease of subjects at Beechwood Road, Uphall Station. Dated 18th July 1963.217188: Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Limited undated tracing showing ground occupied at Uphall Works
Undated plan at a scale of 1:2500, incorporating many hand-written notes.217189: Search for Incumbrances over Leasehold Subjects at Uphall Station, West Lothian (3 roods 9 poles). Dated 1963.
Search for Incumbrances over Leasehold Subjects at Uphall Station, West Lothian (3 roods 9 poles). Sewn with pink thread and dated 1963, the document records registry searches relating to a small property near Uphall Station, part of the lands of Stankards.217190: Search for Incumbrances over Leasehold Subjects at Uphall Station, West Lothian (1 rood 16 poles). Dated 1963.
Search for Incumbrances over Leasehold Subjects at Uphall Station, West Lothian (1 rood 16 poles). Sewn with pink thread and dated 1963, the document records registry searches relating to a small property at Uphall Station, part of the lands of Stankards.217231: Scottish Oils Limited, Box of undated Glass Negatives
Approximately 169 undated black and white glass negatives showing images associated with the Scottish Shale Oil Industry. Most of the images are undated. The box is divided into sections: A: Early Retort Diagrams (Young and allied types); B: Mining (empty); C: Crude Works (old), top of bench charging operation, tipping spent shale, bench under construction, condensers under construction, experimental retort, diagram of Naphtha plant, diagram of retort temps; D: Westwood; general view of works, bench, shale breaker, shale elevator, shale feed, shale discharge, disposal conveyor, condensers, retort diagram, etc.; E: Oil Works and Refinery, Old and Historical; F: Refinery, general view, distillation column, etc.; G: Wax: diagram of wax extraction plant, etc.; H: Sulphate of Ammonia; K: Bricks and Candles, plant diagram, spent shale face, brick press, etc.; J: Grangemouth (empty); L: Miscellaneous, James Young Portrait, Pumpherston Canteen, Local Gusher, interior of canteen, baths, lockers, bus, early delivery horse tank; M: Detergent, view of plant, bottle filling, barrel filling and despatch, etc.; N: Sundry Tables, shale retorting scheme, dunnet shale analysis, sundry shale oil analysis, etc.; P: Graphs; R: Diagrams; S: Burngrange Fire. Scottish Oils Limited217232: Disposition - No 2 Newton, Winchburgh
Photocopy relating to No 2 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Donald Fletcher Yuill and his wife Marion Weir Watson Waddell or Jones or Yuill for the sum of £250 with entry as at 10th September 1967. Includes a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.050 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, showing it in more detail.217233: Disposition - No 4 Newton, Winchburgh
Photocopy relating to No 4 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Robert McCann for the sum of £300 with entry as at 2nd January 1964. Accompanied by a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.047 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, outlined in red, showing it in more detail. On both plans, the common access road is shown in brown.217234: Disposition - No 6 Newton, Winchburgh
Photocopy relating to No 6 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Charles Mailer Flynn and Agnes Cockburn Moodie or Flynn for the sum of £1560 with entry as at 24th June 1966. Includes a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.048 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, outlined in red, showing it in more detail. On both plans, the common access road is shown in brown.