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A collection of articles, discussions and illustrated rambles that explore the history of particular places in West Lothian. Many of these pieces were first published on our West Lothian Heritage facebook page.
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- F21004 - Steaming home to Addiewell
Pugs and mineral railways of Young's Oil Co.
- 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
- 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
- Margaret, the dressmaker of Philpstoun
A sad resident of Philpstoun mill
- Fawnspark Mine and the Tunnel beneath the Canal
The difficult history of Hopetoun No. 41 pit
- Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
- Bodily Functions in Bathgate
Public toilet provision on the streets of Bathgate
- Bathgate's Biggest Bunker
Sand quarries of Bathgate Golf Course
- Bricks and Greecian Goddesses
The Etna brickworks in Armadale
- The Children’s Missionary Band
Children at St David's Church, Bathgate
- The Magic Golden Circle
The Golden Circle, a luxury hotel in Bathgate
- Starlaw’s Moving Story
In search of Starlaw village
- The Windmill Man Visits Bathgate
Railway photography at Guildhaugh
- Atmospheric Times at Colinshiels
Colinshiels
- A Flaming Success - The Big Bathgate Bonfire
Firery celebrations in Bathgate and other towns
- Halloween in the Capputhall Bogs
A haunted corner near Drumcross
- Tramroad to Barbauchlaw Quarry
Building stone for Armadale
- The Last of the Auld Thatched Biggins
A thatched cottage in Blackburn
- Christmas Greetings from Guildyhaugh Toll
Guildyhaugh toll, Bathgate
- A Bridgend Street Scene
Bathgate's industrial west end.
- An Attractive Tractor
Leyland tractors tested on Mosside farm
- Beyond the Garden Wall
The great fire or Torbanehill, part one.
- The “Torbanehill airship" – an Edwardian UFO ?
Newspaper reports of strange lights in the sky
- The Great Fire of Torbanehill
Torbanehill mineral destroyed by fire
- Bathgate's "Show Place"
The Knock in the Bathgate Hills
- Cappers Ironstone
Some ironstone pits in Armadale
- Banging Away on the Gala Braes
A rifle range in the Bathgate hills
- Mysteries of the Moss
Railway and peat works in Easter Inch Moss
- Prospects of Bathgate
Panoramic Views across the Rooftops of Bathgate
- Limestone at the Silver Mines
South Silvermines quarry
- Bathgate's Bathing Bairns
The mill pond at Bathgate spade forge.
- Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire
- Refuge at Tottleywells
A camp for displaced persons near Queensferry
- Ecclesmachan, Linlithgowshire
- A Postcard from Lizzie
Wartime letters from Bangour hospital
- Hillend Coal
Early coal workings near Ecclesmachan
- The Stone of Infinitely Long Endurance
The Binny quarries
- A Very Prettily Designed Little Structure
The railway station at Bangour
- Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire and Midlothian
- Trains Beneath the Viaduct
The mineral railway to Newliston pits
- Fragrant Winchburgh
The Triumph of Decent Toilets
- The Electric Ghosts of Hawk Hill Plantation
The terminus of the Winchburgh electric railway
- Shale Beneath the Runway - the Ingliston Pits
Ingliston, Hallyards
- Bings, Bings are Wonderful Things
Exploring Hopetoun oil works bing
- Bye-Bye Hopetoun Bath-house
The last remains of Hopetoun oil works.
- Kirknewton, Midlothian
- 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
- Explosion at Oakbank
Locomotive explosion at Oakbank Oil Works
- Leithhead Mill
A mill on the Water of Leith
- Water from Redcraig
Water supply and a managers houses for Oakbank oil works
- Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire
- A Trip around the County
A bus trip to Linlithgow and the surrounding district
- Ochiltree – The Shale Mine That Never Was
A disappointing coal mine for the Linlithgow Oil Company
- Cauldimmery Roadstone
Roadstone for the County
- Railways of Champfleurie Oil Works
Overview of Railway routes
- A Secret Passage to Linlithgow Palace?
Kingcavil quarry and its drainage
- Bridgend’s Shale Canyon
Opencast shale workings at Bridgend
- Livingston, Linlithgowshire
- Moss Cottages
Country cottages in Livingston
- The Hunt Through Livingston
Following the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hunt.
- The Sorry Tale of Wee Willie Hamilton
A cottage at Easter Breich
- Red Mill in the White Snow
Corn mill on the Almond near East Whitburn
- The Five Sisters
A history of Westwood Bing
- Boring News from Gavieside
Investigations on the site of Gavieside No.40 pit
- Mid Briech – A Home in the Countryside
The shale village of Mid Breich
- The Lost Viaducts of Westwood
Bridges across the Breich Water to the Westwood pits.
- Digging the Dunnet
Opencast shale working by the River Almond
- Soapy Calves at Mill Farm
Scotch washing in Livingston
- Redhouse – A Link with the Turnpike Age?
A derelict farmhouse at Redhouse
- The Eccentric Dougall Brothers – Blackburn's Oil Tycoons?
Looking for Blackburn Oil Works
- Fire-Stones from Blackburn
The leck stone quarry in Blackburn
- Mixed Foursomes in Livingston
Livingston Mill farm, Barracks farm
- The Minister and the Lady from Chicago
Drama at Auchenhard house
- The Great Westwood Train Robbery
Mischief in Westwood Rows
- Ghost Signs and Sunday Drinkers
The Turf Hotel in Blackburn
- A Mystery Mill Revealed
Hopefield Mills in Blackburn
- Two Bridges in Blackburn
Turnpike road bridges in Blackburn
- “The Trundling Tenth”
West Lothian’s Bicycle Battalion meet at Livingstone Station
- Reckless Behaviour in Carmondean
The wooden railway bridge in Livingston
- The Sunday Bus in Livingston
Livingston to West Calder
- Mr. Robert Braid – A Man of Many Parts
Livingston's Pioneer Photographer
- Two Brick Walls Outside Seafield, West Lothian
The shale tramway from Breich to Seafield
- From Hollywood Dreams to a Mattress Store
Blackburn's Picturedrome
- Midcalder, Midlothian
- Well. Well, Well.
Letham Well and other healing wells.
- 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.
- Farewell Pentland House
The end of a Livingston landmark.
- 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.
- 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.
- Shotts, Lanarkshire
- Peden's Stone
A Convenators memorial on Benhar Moor
- The Old Clattering Mill
The Clattering Mill at Blackridge
- The Bridges of the Almond, from source to Polkemmet
The Almond in Lanarkshire
- Torphichen, Linlithgowshire
- Miss Clark Drives the Train
The opening of Bridgecastle pit.
- Decent homes for £25?
Housing conditions in the Bridgehouse rows.
- An Excursion “every bit as good as Portobello”
Wallaces cave by the River Avon
- Limestone Beneath Bowden Hill
The Bowenhill lime works and tramway
- West Lothian's Most Scenic Pit Bing?
The Hilderston pits in the Bathgate hills
- Uphall, Linlithgowshire
- 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 Fine Wee Broxburn Pug
Boxburn, Powflats, Roman Camps
- Bedding Down at East Mains
Stewartfield No.4 pit, and its visitors.
- James' Last Journey
Tanker accident at Uphall Station
- The Writing’s on the Wall in Greendykes Road
The Cardross Hotel in Broxburn
- From Hollywood to Broxburn and Beyond
Film Transport Services and Fairfield Garage
- The Final Years of the Broxburn Candle-House
The "Candleworks" Office Building at Broxburn Refinery.
- Lodging in Uphall
Crossgreen model lodging house.
- A Bridge in Broxburn
Bridge 28 and the Stewartfield mines
- Buried Treasure at Crossgreen
The remains of Crossgreen shale mine near Uphall
- Shelter Beneath the Bing
An air raid shelter near Greendykes Road in Broxburn.
- Outing to Drumshoreland
A field outing to Drumshoreland curling pond.
- West Calder, Midlothian
- Blaw Wearie: A Beautiful Spot for a Murder
A lonely cottage on the road to Lanark
- The Royal Wedding and the Leavenseat Bonfire
Celebrations and the Levenseat mines
- On the Bing, waiting for the Bomb
A Royal Observer Corps post in West Calder
- All Change at Addiewell
Farewell to the footbridge at Addiewell railway station.
- The First Burngrange
In search of the Burngrange oil works
- If Only the Knife had been Sharper
Horror in the Harburn Rows
- Lost Curling Ponds
A quick survey of West Lothian's curling ponds.
- Black Gold Beneath West Calder
Drilling for petroleum at Hartwood Road, West Calder.
- Seedy Business in West Calder
The Lavex Manufacturing Company,
- The Mysteries of Muirhall
Muirhall and its curling green
- Forgotten North Cobbinshaw
North Cobbinshaw mine and the lost settlement of Kipsyke
- The Long Drive South
The old drove road at Tormiewheel
- Steaming home to Addiewell
Pugs and mineral railways of Young's Oil Co.
- Tracks Through the Forest
Looking for the site of North Cobbinshaw oil works.
- An Alien Landscape at Harburnhead
The remains of the Harburnhead limestone mines.
- School Days in Gavieside
A history of Gavieside school
- West Calder’s Hidden Viaduct
The West Calder Loop Line Viaduct over the Breich Water
- Grime-free in Woodmuir
Woodmuir mine
- Small Tragedies in Woodmuir
Woodmuir row, collieries and quarry.
- Stopping the Traffic in Addiewell
Addiewell, Breich Toll
- The Remains of South Cobbinshaw
The shale village of South Cobbinshaw
- Levenseat Landscapes
Ironstone and sandstone mining at Levenseat
- The Pleasure Gardens of Gavieside
The Lands of Gavieside
- An Explosive Story from West Calder
Drama at Mungle's Store in West Calder
- Gavieside Uncovered
Revealling traces of Gavieside village
- The Beehives of Woodmuir
Coking ovens at Woodmuir pit
- Tragedy at City Farm
The footpath from Gavieside to City Farm
- Pie Jock's Palace
The People's Hall and Polytechnic Hall in West Calder
- The Last Washhouse in Livingstone Street
A relic of the high rows at Addiewell
- Whitburn, Linlithgowshire
- Greenburn Iron
Ironstone mining at Greenburn and Fauldhouse
- A Fauldhouse Landscape
Pits and a brickworks at Crofthead and Eastfield
- Curling at Cult
Cult curling pond and other ponds in Whitburn parish
- The Lady with the Silver Spade
The Fauldhouse water wars
- The Most Incommodious and Disgraceful of Stations
Whitburn railway station
- Nights Out in the West End
The Caledonian Hotel, Fauldhouse
- Addiewell's New Mill
A papermill on the Breich water
- On the Track of the Polar Express
Fauldhouse's Victoria pit and Crofthead No.7
- Drill Hall Drama in Fauldhouse
The Fauldhouse drill hall
- Shop at East Whitburn
Mcgillverey's shop in East Whitburn
- Eppie's Stane
A Whitburn landmark
- To My Darling Wife and Boys
A message from Polkemmet hospital, Xmas 1917
- The Tale of the Falla Mill
A Lost Mill on the Breich Water
- The Hidden Hall
Gardner's Hall farm
- Trouble in a Garden City
Bents garden city
- Whitburn's Other Mansion-House
A History of Cult House
- Jean, Willie and the Weans
A street scene in East Whitburn
- Fresh Horses at Whitburn
The story of the Whitburn inn.
- On the Carpet
Carpet bowls in Whitburn and district.
- Searching the Ruins of Benhar
In search of the site of Benhar Oil Works.
- Lovely Loganlea
An image of Loganlea Colliery
- The Remarkable Richmonds
A Whitburn Gasworks Dynasty
- Roadstone at the Station
A steam lorry and roller at Whitburn railway station
- The First Greenrigg
The lonely Greenrigg rows
- Bridges of the River Almond from Polkemmet and Swineabbey
Bridges on the Almond in the Whitburn area
- The White Burn Turns Black
Pollution of the White Burn
- Whitburn Rock
Old Quarry Workings at Blaeberryhill
- The Iron Men of Muldron
Ironstone mining on Muldron moor
- School Out for East Benhar
The ruins of East Benhar school
- Pugs and Pits
Steam Trains at Polkemmet Colliery