Stories about places

A collection of stories and illustrated rambles that explore the history of places and landscapes in West Lothian.

• F23002 - Happy Homes Hidden within Woodmuir Forest

  Evidence of an early coal mining community

• F23001 - Alternative Realities in Breich

  A potholed road and some mind-expanding artwork

• F22022 - The Whitburn Cycle Parade

  Tam o’Shanter rubs shoulders with a suffragette

• F22021 - The Wood and the Rosebud

  The remains of Armadale's early coal pits

• F22020 - Robert Burns and the Bogie Crossing

  The Bridgecastle pit of the Lanrigg Coal Co.

• F22019 - A Hundred Holes in Cairnpapple Hill

  Early Coal Workings in the Bathgate Hills

• F22018 - Bathgate Beneath Your Feet

  Early coal workings beneath Bathgate Town Centre

• F22017 - Mary and the Ballencrieff Pits

  An early colliery near Bathgate

• F22016 - Southrigg Bogies and Butterflies

  Stories of the Southrigg collieries

• F22015 - The Woodbank Mystery

  Mischief in a private mine

• F22014 - The Boghead Boom and the Great Engine Sale

  Pits in the Boghead estate

• F22014 - Boghead House, Titlarks, and Swallows.

  The pastimes of Thomas Durham Weir

• F22012 - The Remarkable Torbanehill Mineral

  Exploring the remains of the Torbanehill pits

• F22011 - A Wander through the Calder Hall Estate

  Two Funerals and a Railway though a Tennis Court

• F22010 - The Lost Township of Whitelachlens

  A Mystery on the Moors

• F22009 - Camilty Bridge and the Road to Nowhere

  A Grand Plan for a Highway to England

• F22008 - The Little Remains of Little Vantage

  An old inn beside the Lang Whang.

• F22007 - The Canal Builders and Broxburn's First Railways

  East Mains Quarry and the Broxburn Railway

• F22006 - The Curdly Iron pits of the Gladsmuir hills

  Early mines beneath the Muldron Moors

• F22005 - Uphall's Bridge of Mysteries

  The railway that disappeared

• F22004 - The Scottish Dutchmen

  Moss Litter works, and moss litter workers, in West Lothian

• F22003 - Good Deeds and Exotic Fruit

  An early history of Middleton Hall

• F22002 - Secrets beneath the Soil

  The Grangemouth to Uphall pipeline

• F22001 - Just an Ordinary Broxburn Riot

  Sectarian hatred, or just a drunken brawl?

• F21010 - Dawn at Maidenwell Brow

  A Lonely Toll House on the County Boundary

• F21009 - A Busy Time at Bridge Twelve

  The History of a Railway Underpass

• F21008 - Greendykes Bing and the Dirt Bike Boys

  Whose bing is it anyway?

• F21005 - Pumping from a Peaceful Place

  The pumphouse on the River Almond serving Westwood works.

• F21004 - Steaming home to Addiewell

  Pugs and mineral railways of Young's Oil Co.

• F21003 - The Zombies of Breichdykes

  A sombre history of Briechdykes

• F21002 - Mr. & Mrs. Gladstone visit Pumpherston

  Gifts presented to Mr & Mrs Gladstone at Pumpherston oil works.

• F21001 - The Five Sisters

  A history of Westwood Bing

• F21000 - Tea with Granny

  Refreshments at Couston Mains

• F20031 - The West Calder Combined Picnic

  Rainy days in West Calder's West End

• F20027 - Showing-off in Whitburn

  The Whitburn Cattle Show

• F20026 - The Blue Clays of Wallhouse

  Brickworks at Broompark, Wallhouse, and Avoncrook

• F20025 - The Eccentric Dougall Brothers – Blackburn's Oil Tycoons?

  Looking for Blackburn Oil Works

• F20024 - Whitburn's Other Mansion-House

  A History of Cult House

• F20023 - The Hidden Hall

  Gardner's Hall farm

• F20022 - The Tale of the Falla Mill

  A Lost Mill on the Breich Water

• F20021 - Mr. Robert Braid – A Man of Many Parts

  Livingston's Pioneer Photographer

• F20020 - Keeping it Clean in Pumpherston

  Artificial Detergents from Pumpherston

• F20019 - Fragrant Winchburgh

  The Triumph of Decent Toilets

• F20018 - Pugs and Pits

  Steam Trains at Polkemmet Colliery

• F20017 - Prospects of Bathgate

  Panoramic Views across the Rooftops of Bathgate

• F20016 - Whitburn Rock

  Old Quarry Workings at Blaeberryhill

• F20015 - The White Burn Turns Black

  Pollution of the White Burn

• F20014 - The Final Years of the Broxburn Candle-House

  The "Candleworks" Office Building at Broxburn Refinery.

• F20013 - The Long Drive South

  The old drove road at Tormiewheel

• F20012 - Bings, Bings are Wonderful Things

  Exploring Hopetoun oil works bing

• F20011 - The Magic Golden Circle

  The Golden Circle, a luxury hotel in Bathgate

• F20010 - Mr. Bell's Quarry

  Limestone quarries and kilns at Bellsquarry and Yellowstruthers

• F20009 - The Old Clattering Mill

  The Clattering Mill at Blackridge

• F20008 - Small Tragedies in Woodmuir

  Woodmuir row, collieries and quarry.

• F20007 - Mixed Foursomes in Livingston

  Livingston Mill farm, Barracks farm

• F20006 - Grime-free in Woodmuir

  Woodmuir mine

• F20005 - Shale Beneath the Runway - the Ingliston Pits

  Ingliston, Hallyards

• F20004 - Stopping the Traffic in Addiewell

  Addiewell, Breich Toll

• F20003 - The Sunday Bus in Livingston

  Livingston to West Calder

• F20002 - A Fine Wee Broxburn Pug

  Boxburn, Powflats, Roman Camps

• F20001 - Atmospheric Times at Colinshiels

  Colinshiels

• F19046 - On the Bing, waiting for the Bomb

  A Royal Observer Corps post in West Calder

• F19045 - Christmas Greetings from Guildyhaugh Toll

  Guildyhaugh toll, Bathgate

• F19044 - Trouble in a Garden City

  Bents garden city

• F19043 - Stampede at Howden Toll

  Howden toll on the turnpike road.

• F19042 - The Lost Viaducts of Westwood

  Bridges across the Breich Water to the Westwood pits.

• F19041 - Tragedy at City Farm

  The footpath from Gavieside to City Farm

• F19040 - Mid Briech – A Home in the Countryside

  The shale village of Mid Breich

• F19039 - Fawnspark Mine and the Tunnel beneath the Canal

  The difficult history of Hopetoun No. 41 pit

• F19038 - The Famous Houston Coal

  Houston colliery, Uphall

• F19037 - Gavieside Uncovered

  Revealling traces of Gavieside village

• F19036 - Hounds, Merry-makers, and the Camps Viaduct

  The Camps viaduct and Camps branch line.

• F19035 - Boring News from Gavieside

  Investigations on the site of Gavieside No.40 pit

• F19034 - The “Torbanehill airship" – an Edwardian UFO ?

  Newspaper reports of strange lights in the sky

• F19033 - The Remains of South Cobbinshaw

  The shale village of South Cobbinshaw

• F19032 - Bricks and Greecian Goddesses

  The Etna brickworks in Armadale

• F19031 - Temporary Towns of the Railway Navvies

  Navvy camps at Bellsquarry and Crofthead

• F19030 - Shop at East Whitburn

  Mcgillverey's shop in East Whitburn

• F19029 - The Calder Wood Caverns

  Shale workings beside the Linhouse water in Calder Wood

• F19028 - The Great Fire of Torbanehill

  Torbanehill mineral destroyed by fire

• F19027 - Beyond the Garden Wall

  The great fire or Torbanehill, part one.

• F19026 - Forgotten North Cobbinshaw

  North Cobbinshaw mine and the lost settlement of Kipsyke

• F19025 - Bodily Functions in Bathgate

  Public toilet provision on the streets of Bathgate

• F19024 - The Last of the Auld Thatched Biggins

  A thatched cottage in Blackburn

• F19023 - The Writing’s on the Wall in Greendykes Road

  The Cardross Hotel in Broxburn

• F19022 - Black Gold Beneath West Calder

  Drilling for petroleum at Hartwood Road, West Calder.

• F19021 - Nights Out in the West End

  The Caledonian Hotel, Fauldhouse

• F19020 - Bedding Down at East Mains

  Stewartfield No.4 pit, and its visitors.

• F19019 - Treading the Boards in Broxburn

  Performances at Broxburn's first picture house

• F19018 - Well. Well, Well.

  Letham Well and other healing wells.

• F19017 - Mid Calder’s Bridge End

  The Almond Bridge and Bridgend area of Midcalder.

• F19016 - West Lothian Circles the World

  The travels of a sailing ship.

• F19015 - An Explosive Story from West Calder

  Drama at Mungle's Store in West Calder

• F19014 - The Pleasure Gardens of Gavieside

  The Lands of Gavieside

• F19013 - Canvas Cathedrals and Tent Evangelists

  The Evangelization Society in Scotland

• F19012 - The Most Incommodious and Disgraceful of Stations

  Whitburn railway station

• F19011 - Bridgend’s Shale Canyon

  Opencast shale workings at Bridgend

• F19010 - A Postcard from Lizzie

  Wartime letters from Bangour hospital

• F19009 - Ghost Signs and Sunday Drinkers

  The Turf Hotel in Blackburn

• F19008 - The Mysteries of Muirhall

  Muirhall and its curling green

• F19007 - Lost Curling Ponds

  A quick survey of West Lothian's curling ponds.

• F19006 - Curling at Cult

  Cult curling pond and other ponds in Whitburn parish

• F19005 - Buckets in the air

  The aerial ropeway from Oakbank oil works to the Newfarm mines

• F19004 - Leithhead Mill

  A mill on the Water of Leith

• F19003 - Peden's Stone

  A Convenators memorial on Benhar Moor

• F19002 - Levenseat Landscapes

  Ironstone and sandstone mining at Levenseat

• F19001 - Greenburn Iron

  Ironstone mining at Greenburn and Fauldhouse

• F18055 - The Children’s Missionary Band

  Children at St David's Church, Bathgate

• F18054 - The First Greenrigg

  The lonely Greenrigg rows

• F18053 - A Flaming Success - The Big Bathgate Bonfire

  Firery celebrations in Bathgate and other towns

• F18052 - Jean, Willie and the Weans

  A street scene in East Whitburn

• F18051 - Decent homes for £25?

  Housing conditions in the Bridgehouse rows.

• F18050 - Miss Clark Drives the Train

  The opening of Bridgecastle pit.

• F18049 - A Trip around the County

  A bus trip to Linlithgow and the surrounding district

• F18048 - The Disappearing Campus

  The demolition of No.1 Simpson Parkway

• F18047 - Halloween in the Capputhall Bogs

  A haunted corner near Drumcross

• F18046 - The Last Washhouse in Livingstone Street

  A relic of the high rows at Addiewell

• F18045 - Banging Away on the Gala Braes

  A rifle range in the Bathgate hills

• F18044 - Trains Beneath the Viaduct

  The mineral railway to Newliston pits

• F18043 - Two Bridges in Blackburn

  Turnpike road bridges in Blackburn

• F18042 - An Alien Landscape at Harburnhead

  The remains of the Harburnhead limestone mines.

• F18041 - From Hollywood to Broxburn and Beyond

  Film Transport Services and Fairfield Garage

• F18040 - Bridges of the River Almond from Polkemmet and Swineabbey

  Bridges on the Almond in the Whitburn area

• F18039 - James' Last Journey

  Tanker accident at Uphall Station

• F18038 - The Bridges of the Almond, from source to Polkemmet

  The Almond in Lanarkshire

• F18037 - The Remarkable Richmonds

  A Whitburn Gasworks Dynasty

• F18036 - On the Carpet

  Carpet bowls in Whitburn and district.

• F18035 - Joe (and his horse) invade Pumpherston

  The origins of Pumpherston's coop

• F18034 - Fresh Horses at Whitburn

  The story of the Whitburn inn.

• F18033 - Starlaw’s Moving Story

  In search of Starlaw village

• F18032 - The Windmill Man Visits Bathgate

  Railway photography at Guildhaugh

• F18031 - New Town Archaeology

  Relics of the trim course at Almondvale park.

• F18030 - Explosion at Oakbank

  Locomotive explosion at Oakbank Oil Works

• F18029 - The Minister and the Lady from Chicago

  Drama at Auchenhard house

• F18028 - Farewell Pentland House

  The end of a Livingston landmark.

• F18027 - If Only the Knife had been Sharper

  Horror in the Harburn Rows

• F18026 - The First Burngrange

  In search of the Burngrange oil works

• F18025 - The Bone Crushers of Broxburn

  Bone dust factories at Cawburn and Broxburn

• F18024 - The Sad Tale of Christina and Jemima

  Life at Inveralmond Cottages

• F18023 - The Royal Wedding and the Leavenseat Bonfire

  Celebrations and the Levenseat mines

• F18022 - Digging the Dunnet

  Opencast shale working by the River Almond

• F18021 - Pie Jock's Palace

  The People's Hall and Polytechnic Hall in West Calder

• F18020 - The Beehives of Woodmuir

  Coking ovens at Woodmuir pit

• F18019 - The Electric Ghosts of Hawk Hill Plantation

  The terminus of the Winchburgh electric railway

• F18018 - A Very Prettily Designed Little Structure

  The railway station at Bangour

• F18017 - A Bridge in Broxburn

  Bridge 28 and the Stewartfield mines

• F18016 - To My Darling Wife and Boys

  A message from Polkemmet hospital, Xmas 1917

• F18015 - Margaret, the dressmaker of Philpstoun

  A sad resident of Philpstoun mill

• F18014 - Philpston's Lost Loch

  Philpstoun mill and its watercourses

• F18013 - Eppie's Stane

  A Whitburn landmark

• F18012 - The Sorry Tale of Wee Willie Hamilton

  A cottage at Easter Breich

• F18011 - The Hunt Through Livingston

  Following the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hunt.

• F18010 - An Attractive Tractor

  Leyland tractors tested on Mosside farm

• F18009 - From Hollywood Dreams to a Mattress Store

  Blackburn's Picturedrome

• F18008 - Two Brick Walls Outside Seafield, West Lothian

  The shale tramway from Breich to Seafield

• F18007 - West Calder’s Hidden Viaduct

  The West Calder Loop Line Viaduct over the Breich Water

• F18006 - Bathgate's Biggest Bunker

  Sand quarries of Bathgate Golf Course

• F18005 - Hillend Coal

  Early coal workings near Ecclesmachan

• F18004 - Moss Cottages

  Country cottages in Livingston

• F18003 - Bathgate's "Show Place"

  The Knock in the Bathgate Hills

• F18002 - Fire-Stones from Blackburn

  The leck stone quarry in Blackburn

• F18001 - Outing to Drumshoreland

  A field outing to Drumshoreland curling pond.

• F17050 - Red Mill in the White Snow

  Corn mill on the Almond near East Whitburn

• F17049 - A Secret Passage to Linlithgow Palace?

  Kingcavil quarry and its drainage

• F17048 - The Stone of Infinitely Long Endurance

  The Binny quarries

• F17047 - Drill Hall Drama in Fauldhouse

  The Fauldhouse drill hall

• F17046 - On the Track of the Polar Express

  Fauldhouse's Victoria pit and Crofthead No.7

• F17045 - A Bridgend Street Scene

  Bathgate's industrial west end.

• F17044 - Soapy Calves at Mill Farm

  Scotch washing in Livingston

• F17043 - Addiewell's New Mill

  A papermill on the Breich water

• F17042 - Blaw Wearie: A Beautiful Spot for a Murder

  A lonely cottage on the road to Lanark

• F17041 - Tramroad to Barbauchlaw Quarry

  Building stone for Armadale

• F17040 - The Lady with the Silver Spade

  The Fauldhouse water wars

• F17039 - An Excursion “every bit as good as Portobello”

  Wallaces cave by the River Avon

• F17038 - Water from Redcraig

  Water supply and a managers houses for Oakbank oil works

• F17037 - Limestone Beneath Bowden Hill

  The Bowenhill lime works and tramway

• F17036 - Bye-Bye Hopetoun Bath-house

  The last remains of Hopetoun oil works.

• F17035 - The Dirty Almond

  A survey of industrial pollution

• F17034 - Mysteries of the Moss

  Railway and peat works in Easter Inch Moss

• F17033 - Tracks Through the Forest

  Looking for the site of North Cobbinshaw oil works.

• F17032 - West Lothian's Most Scenic Pit Bing?

  The Hilderston pits in the Bathgate hills

• F17031 - A Fauldhouse Landscape

  Pits and a brickworks at Crofthead and Eastfield

• F17030 - Shelter Beneath the Bing

  An air raid shelter near Greendykes Road in Broxburn.

• F17029 - Illuminating Mid Calder

  Mid Calder's gas works

• F17028 - Romance in Midcalder

  An romantic exchange of postcards

• F17027 - Livingston: City of the Future

  An early vision for the new town

• F17026 - Refuge at Tottleywells

  A camp for displaced persons near Queensferry

• F17025 - Cauldimmery Roadstone

  Roadstone for the County

• F17024 - All Change at Addiewell

  Farewell to the footbridge at Addiewell railway station.

• F17023 - Filling Up at Camps

  East Camps garage and the Camps oil company

• F17022 - Bathgate's Bathing Bairns

  The mill pond at Bathgate spade forge.

• F17021 - Buried Treasure at Crossgreen

  The remains of Crossgreen shale mine near Uphall

• F17020 - Almond Valley Bridge

  Bridging the Almond to link the new town.

• F17019 - School Out for East Benhar

  The ruins of East Benhar school

• F17018 - The Iron Men of Muldron

  Ironstone mining on Muldron moor

• F17017 - School Days in Gavieside

  A history of Gavieside school

• F17016 - The Work Colony

  Social purpose on the Murieston estate

• F17015 - “The Trundling Tenth”

  West Lothian’s Bicycle Battalion meet at Livingstone Station

• F17014 - Cappers Ironstone

  Some ironstone pits in Armadale

• F17013 - Reckless Behaviour in Carmondean

  The wooden railway bridge in Livingston

• F17012 - Redhouse – A Link with the Turnpike Age?

  A derelict farmhouse at Redhouse

• F17011 - Ochiltree – The Shale Mine That Never Was

  A disappointing coal mine for the Linlithgow Oil Company

• F17010 - Charming Charlesfield

  A country house in Livingston

• F17009 - Bellsquarry, the Oil Works in the Wilderness

  Locating a little known oil works in the Alderstone estate.

• F17008 - Roadstone at the Station

  A steam lorry and roller at Whitburn railway station

• F17007 - A Mystery Mill Revealed

  Hopefield Mills in Blackburn

• F17006 - Limestone at the Silver Mines

  South Silvermines quarry

• F17005 - The Great Westwood Train Robbery

  Mischief in Westwood Rows

• F17004 - Lovely Loganlea

  An image of Loganlea Colliery

• F17003 - Seedy Business in West Calder

  The Lavex Manufacturing Company,

• F17002 - Lodging in Uphall

  Crossgreen model lodging house.

• F17001 - Searching the Ruins of Benhar

  In search of the site of Benhar Oil Works.

• F16001 - Railways of Champfleurie Oil Works

  Overview of Railway routes

• Abercorn, Linlithgowshire
• Philpston's Lost Loch

  Philpstoun mill and its watercourses

• Fawnspark Mine and the Tunnel beneath the Canal

  The difficult history of Hopetoun No. 41 pit

• Margaret, the dressmaker of Philpstoun

  A sad resident of Philpstoun mill

• Secrets beneath the Soil

  The Grangemouth to Uphall pipeline

• Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
• Beyond the Garden Wall

  The great fire or Torbanehill, part one.

• Bodily Functions in Bathgate

  Public toilet provision on the streets of Bathgate

• The Last of the Auld Thatched Biggins

  A thatched cottage in Blackburn

• Boghead House, Titlarks, and Swallows.

  The pastimes of Thomas Durham Weir

• Banging Away on the Gala Braes

  A rifle range in the Bathgate hills

• The Remarkable Torbanehill Mineral

  Exploring the remains of the Torbanehill pits

• Tea with Granny

  Refreshments at Couston Mains

• The Children’s Missionary Band

  Children at St David's Church, Bathgate

• Starlaw’s Moving Story

  In search of Starlaw village

• The Windmill Man Visits Bathgate

  Railway photography at Guildhaugh

• Bathgate Beneath Your Feet

  Early coal workings beneath Bathgate Town Centre

• A Flaming Success - The Big Bathgate Bonfire

  Firery celebrations in Bathgate and other towns

• Prospects of Bathgate

  Panoramic Views across the Rooftops of Bathgate

• An Attractive Tractor

  Leyland tractors tested on Mosside farm

• Bathgate's Biggest Bunker

  Sand quarries of Bathgate Golf Course

• Bathgate's "Show Place"

  The Knock in the Bathgate Hills

• Limestone at the Silver Mines

  South Silvermines quarry

• A Bridgend Street Scene

  Bathgate's industrial west end.

• The Magic Golden Circle

  The Golden Circle, a luxury hotel in Bathgate

• Halloween in the Capputhall Bogs

  A haunted corner near Drumcross

• Tramroad to Barbauchlaw Quarry

  Building stone for Armadale

• Christmas Greetings from Guildyhaugh Toll

  Guildyhaugh toll, Bathgate

• Mysteries of the Moss

  Railway and peat works in Easter Inch Moss

• Mary and the Ballencrieff Pits

  An early colliery near Bathgate

• The Boghead Boom and the Great Engine Sale

  Pits in the Boghead estate

• Bathgate's Bathing Bairns

  The mill pond at Bathgate spade forge.

• The Wood and the Rosebud

  The remains of Armadale's early coal pits

• The “Torbanehill airship" – an Edwardian UFO ?

  Newspaper reports of strange lights in the sky

• Bricks and Greecian Goddesses

  The Etna brickworks in Armadale

• The Great Fire of Torbanehill

  Torbanehill mineral destroyed by fire

• Cappers Ironstone

  Some ironstone pits in Armadale

• Atmospheric Times at Colinshiels

  Colinshiels

• Carnwath, Lanarkshire
• Dawn at Maidenwell Brow

  A Lonely Toll House on the County Boundary

• Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire
• Refuge at Tottleywells

  A camp for displaced persons near Queensferry

• Ecclesmachan, Linlithgowshire
• A Very Prettily Designed Little Structure

  The railway station at Bangour

• Hillend Coal

  Early coal workings near Ecclesmachan

• The Stone of Infinitely Long Endurance

  The Binny quarries

• A Postcard from Lizzie

  Wartime letters from Bangour hospital

• Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire and Midlothian
• Bings, Bings are Wonderful Things

  Exploring Hopetoun oil works bing

• Fragrant Winchburgh

  The Triumph of Decent Toilets

• The Electric Ghosts of Hawk Hill Plantation

  The terminus of the Winchburgh electric railway

• Bye-Bye Hopetoun Bath-house

  The last remains of Hopetoun oil works.

• Shale Beneath the Runway - the Ingliston Pits

  Ingliston, Hallyards

• Trains Beneath the Viaduct

  The mineral railway to Newliston pits

• Kirknewton, Midlothian
• Water from Redcraig

  Water supply and a managers houses for Oakbank oil works

• Leithhead Mill

  A mill on the Water of Leith

• Explosion at Oakbank

  Locomotive explosion at Oakbank Oil Works

• Filling Up at Camps

  East Camps garage and the Camps oil company

• Buckets in the air

  The aerial ropeway from Oakbank oil works to the Newfarm mines

• The Lost Township of Whitelachlens

  A Mystery on the Moors

• The Little Remains of Little Vantage

  An old inn beside the Lang Whang.

• A Wander through the Calder Hall Estate

  Two Funerals and a Railway though a Tennis Court

• Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire
• Bridgend’s Shale Canyon

  Opencast shale workings at Bridgend

• Ochiltree – The Shale Mine That Never Was

  A disappointing coal mine for the Linlithgow Oil Company

• A Secret Passage to Linlithgow Palace?

  Kingcavil quarry and its drainage

• A Trip around the County

  A bus trip to Linlithgow and the surrounding district

• Cauldimmery Roadstone

  Roadstone for the County

• Railways of Champfleurie Oil Works

  Overview of Railway routes

• Livingston, Linlithgowshire
• The Great Westwood Train Robbery

  Mischief in Westwood Rows

• Red Mill in the White Snow

  Corn mill on the Almond near East Whitburn

• Two Bridges in Blackburn

  Turnpike road bridges in Blackburn

• Mixed Foursomes in Livingston

  Livingston Mill farm, Barracks farm

• Fire-Stones from Blackburn

  The leck stone quarry in Blackburn

• The Zombies of Breichdykes

  A sombre history of Briechdykes

• Pumping from a Peaceful Place

  The pumphouse on the River Almond serving Westwood works.

• Reckless Behaviour in Carmondean

  The wooden railway bridge in Livingston

• The Sunday Bus in Livingston

  Livingston to West Calder

• Moss Cottages

  Country cottages in Livingston

• Redhouse – A Link with the Turnpike Age?

  A derelict farmhouse at Redhouse

• A Mystery Mill Revealed

  Hopefield Mills in Blackburn

• Two Brick Walls Outside Seafield, West Lothian

  The shale tramway from Breich to Seafield

• Boring News from Gavieside

  Investigations on the site of Gavieside No.40 pit

• From Hollywood Dreams to a Mattress Store

  Blackburn's Picturedrome

• Mid Briech – A Home in the Countryside

  The shale village of Mid Breich

• The Minister and the Lady from Chicago

  Drama at Auchenhard house

• The Hunt Through Livingston

  Following the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hunt.

• The Sorry Tale of Wee Willie Hamilton

  A cottage at Easter Breich

• The Five Sisters

  A history of Westwood Bing

• “The Trundling Tenth”

  West Lothian’s Bicycle Battalion meet at Livingstone Station

• The Lost Viaducts of Westwood

  Bridges across the Breich Water to the Westwood pits.

• The Eccentric Dougall Brothers – Blackburn's Oil Tycoons?

  Looking for Blackburn Oil Works

• Digging the Dunnet

  Opencast shale working by the River Almond

• Mr. Robert Braid – A Man of Many Parts

  Livingston's Pioneer Photographer

• Ghost Signs and Sunday Drinkers

  The Turf Hotel in Blackburn

• Soapy Calves at Mill Farm

  Scotch washing in Livingston

• Midcalder, Midlothian
• Farewell Pentland House

  The end of a Livingston landmark.

• The Disappearing Campus

  The demolition of No.1 Simpson Parkway

• Joe (and his horse) invade Pumpherston

  The origins of Pumpherston's coop

• New Town Archaeology

  Relics of the trim course at Almondvale park.

• The Sad Tale of Christina and Jemima

  Life at Inveralmond Cottages

• Illuminating Mid Calder

  Mid Calder's gas works

• Livingston: City of the Future

  An early vision for the new town

• Almond Valley Bridge

  Bridging the Almond to link the new town.

• Mr. Bell's Quarry

  Limestone quarries and kilns at Bellsquarry and Yellowstruthers

• Mid Calder’s Bridge End

  The Almond Bridge and Bridgend area of Midcalder.

• Well. Well, Well.

  Letham Well and other healing wells.

• The Calder Wood Caverns

  Shale workings beside the Linhouse water in Calder Wood

• Temporary Towns of the Railway Navvies

  Navvy camps at Bellsquarry and Crofthead

• Hounds, Merry-makers, and the Camps Viaduct

  The Camps viaduct and Camps branch line.

• Stampede at Howden Toll

  Howden toll on the turnpike road.

• The Work Colony

  Social purpose on the Murieston estate

• Bellsquarry, the Oil Works in the Wilderness

  Locating a little known oil works in the Alderstone estate.

• Charming Charlesfield

  A country house in Livingston

• Romance in Midcalder

  An romantic exchange of postcards

• Keeping it Clean in Pumpherston

  Artificial Detergents from Pumpherston

• Mr. & Mrs. Gladstone visit Pumpherston

  Gifts presented to Mr & Mrs Gladstone at Pumpherston oil works.

• Camilty Bridge and the Road to Nowhere

  A Grand Plan for a Highway to England

• Shotts, Lanarkshire
• The Old Clattering Mill

  The Clattering Mill at Blackridge

• Southrigg Bogies and Butterflies

  Stories of the Southrigg collieries

• Peden's Stone

  A Convenators memorial on Benhar Moor

• The Bridges of the Almond, from source to Polkemmet

  The Almond in Lanarkshire

• Torphichen, Linlithgowshire
• Limestone Beneath Bowden Hill

  The Bowenhill lime works and tramway

• The Blue Clays of Wallhouse

  Brickworks at Broompark, Wallhouse, and Avoncrook

• An Excursion “every bit as good as Portobello”

  Wallaces cave by the River Avon

• The Woodbank Mystery

  Mischief in a private mine

• West Lothian's Most Scenic Pit Bing?

  The Hilderston pits in the Bathgate hills

• A Hundred Holes in Cairnpapple Hill

  Early Coal Workings in the Bathgate Hills

• Miss Clark Drives the Train

  The opening of Bridgecastle pit.

• Decent homes for £25?

  Housing conditions in the Bridgehouse rows.

• Robert Burns and the Bogie Crossing

  The Bridgecastle pit of the Lanrigg Coal Co.

• Uphall, Linlithgowshire
• The Final Years of the Broxburn Candle-House

  The "Candleworks" Office Building at Broxburn Refinery.

• Shelter Beneath the Bing

  An air raid shelter near Greendykes Road in Broxburn.

• Bedding Down at East Mains

  Stewartfield No.4 pit, and its visitors.

• From Hollywood to Broxburn and Beyond

  Film Transport Services and Fairfield Garage

• A Fine Wee Broxburn Pug

  Boxburn, Powflats, Roman Camps

• Greendykes Bing and the Dirt Bike Boys

  Whose bing is it anyway?

• James' Last Journey

  Tanker accident at Uphall Station

• The Writing’s on the Wall in Greendykes Road

  The Cardross Hotel in Broxburn

• The Canal Builders and Broxburn's First Railways

  East Mains Quarry and the Broxburn Railway

• Uphall's Bridge of Mysteries

  The railway that disappeared

• Lodging in Uphall

  Crossgreen model lodging house.

• Good Deeds and Exotic Fruit

  An early history of Middleton Hall

• A Busy Time at Bridge Twelve

  The History of a Railway Underpass

• Outing to Drumshoreland

  A field outing to Drumshoreland curling pond.

• Buried Treasure at Crossgreen

  The remains of Crossgreen shale mine near Uphall

• Just an Ordinary Broxburn Riot

  Sectarian hatred, or just a drunken brawl?

• The Famous Houston Coal

  Houston colliery, Uphall

• The Bone Crushers of Broxburn

  Bone dust factories at Cawburn and Broxburn

• Treading the Boards in Broxburn

  Performances at Broxburn's first picture house

• A Bridge in Broxburn

  Bridge 28 and the Stewartfield mines

• West Calder, Midlothian
• The Last Washhouse in Livingstone Street

  A relic of the high rows at Addiewell

• Black Gold Beneath West Calder

  Drilling for petroleum at Hartwood Road, West Calder.

• Stopping the Traffic in Addiewell

  Addiewell, Breich Toll

• Small Tragedies in Woodmuir

  Woodmuir row, collieries and quarry.

• Forgotten North Cobbinshaw

  North Cobbinshaw mine and the lost settlement of Kipsyke

• Grime-free in Woodmuir

  Woodmuir mine

• School Days in Gavieside

  A history of Gavieside school

• The Remains of South Cobbinshaw

  The shale village of South Cobbinshaw

• Gavieside Uncovered

  Revealling traces of Gavieside village

• Tragedy at City Farm

  The footpath from Gavieside to City Farm

• Tracks Through the Forest

  Looking for the site of North Cobbinshaw oil works.

• On the Bing, waiting for the Bomb

  A Royal Observer Corps post in West Calder

• Happy Homes Hidden within Woodmuir Forest

  Evidence of an early coal mining community

• All Change at Addiewell

  Farewell to the footbridge at Addiewell railway station.

• Blaw Wearie: A Beautiful Spot for a Murder

  A lonely cottage on the road to Lanark

• Seedy Business in West Calder

  The Lavex Manufacturing Company,

• West Calder’s Hidden Viaduct

  The West Calder Loop Line Viaduct over the Breich Water

• Alternative Realities in Breich

  A potholed road and some mind-expanding artwork

• The Long Drive South

  The old drove road at Tormiewheel

• The Beehives of Woodmuir

  Coking ovens at Woodmuir pit

• Pie Jock's Palace

  The People's Hall and Polytechnic Hall in West Calder

• The Royal Wedding and the Leavenseat Bonfire

  Celebrations and the Levenseat mines

• The First Burngrange

  In search of the Burngrange oil works

• Steaming home to Addiewell

  Pugs and mineral railways of Young's Oil Co.

• If Only the Knife had been Sharper

  Horror in the Harburn Rows

• The Curdly Iron pits of the Gladsmuir hills

  Early mines beneath the Muldron Moors

• The West Calder Combined Picnic

  Rainy days in West Calder's West End

• Levenseat Landscapes

  Ironstone and sandstone mining at Levenseat

• Lost Curling Ponds

  A quick survey of West Lothian's curling ponds.

• The Mysteries of Muirhall

  Muirhall and its curling green

• The Pleasure Gardens of Gavieside

  The Lands of Gavieside

• An Explosive Story from West Calder

  Drama at Mungle's Store in West Calder

• An Alien Landscape at Harburnhead

  The remains of the Harburnhead limestone mines.

• Whitburn, Linlithgowshire
• Roadstone at the Station

  A steam lorry and roller at Whitburn railway station

• Nights Out in the West End

  The Caledonian Hotel, Fauldhouse

• Drill Hall Drama in Fauldhouse

  The Fauldhouse drill hall

• Lovely Loganlea

  An image of Loganlea Colliery

• The Scottish Dutchmen

  Moss Litter works, and moss litter workers, in West Lothian

• Searching the Ruins of Benhar

  In search of the site of Benhar Oil Works.

• Greenburn Iron

  Ironstone mining at Greenburn and Fauldhouse

• On the Track of the Polar Express

  Fauldhouse's Victoria pit and Crofthead No.7

• Fresh Horses at Whitburn

  The story of the Whitburn inn.

• On the Carpet

  Carpet bowls in Whitburn and district.

• The Whitburn Cycle Parade

  Tam o’Shanter rubs shoulders with a suffragette

• The Remarkable Richmonds

  A Whitburn Gasworks Dynasty

• Addiewell's New Mill

  A papermill on the Breich water

• Jean, Willie and the Weans

  A street scene in East Whitburn

• Bridges of the River Almond from Polkemmet and Swineabbey

  Bridges on the Almond in the Whitburn area

• The Lady with the Silver Spade

  The Fauldhouse water wars

• Trouble in a Garden City

  Bents garden city

• A Fauldhouse Landscape

  Pits and a brickworks at Crofthead and Eastfield

• Showing-off in Whitburn

  The Whitburn Cattle Show

• To My Darling Wife and Boys

  A message from Polkemmet hospital, Xmas 1917

• Whitburn Rock

  Old Quarry Workings at Blaeberryhill

• Pugs and Pits

  Steam Trains at Polkemmet Colliery

• The Iron Men of Muldron

  Ironstone mining on Muldron moor

• The White Burn Turns Black

  Pollution of the White Burn

• School Out for East Benhar

  The ruins of East Benhar school

• The Tale of the Falla Mill

  A Lost Mill on the Breich Water

• The Hidden Hall

  Gardner's Hall farm

• Whitburn's Other Mansion-House

  A History of Cult House

• Shop at East Whitburn

  Mcgillverey's shop in East Whitburn

• The First Greenrigg

  The lonely Greenrigg rows

• Curling at Cult

  Cult curling pond and other ponds in Whitburn parish

• Eppie's Stane

  A Whitburn landmark

• The Most Incommodious and Disgraceful of Stations

  Whitburn railway station