Lothians Family History Society

Old Lasswade and Bonnyrigg By Oliver Van Helden

Just over 50 pages of old photographs views and streets of Lasswade and Bonnyrigg....

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Old Leith By Guthrie Hutton

Over 50 pages of old photographs of the Burgh of Leith , includes Newhaven....

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Old Linlithgow By Bruce Jamieson

Old Linlithgow combines a charming collection of photographs with excellent research and local knowledge....

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Old Loanhead by Craig Statham

At one time Loanhead was a thriving, distinct and self-sufficient community, with a local industry revolving around coal mining and steel. ...

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Old Mid & East Calder by William F Hendrie

Mid and East Calder are attractive small towns that are rich in history and were lucky enough to be photographed by an outstanding local photographer. ...

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Old Murrayfield and Corstorphine by Robin Sherman

Despite not being developed extensively until the 1860s, these districts on Edinburgh's western fringe are rich in history. ...

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Old Musselburgh by Donald Lindgren

This varied collection of photographs includes extensive coverage of Fisherrow and its fishing community, as well as pictures of the racecourse. ...

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Old Newtongrange, Gorebridge & Rosewell By Rhona Wilson

Over 50 pages of old photographs of those wonderful small villages. ...

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Old North Berwick By Bruce Jamieson

50 pages of old photographs of this Royal Burgh seaside resort township. ...

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Old Peebles by Rhona Wilson

This lively history also includes photographs of the station and viaduct over the Tweed before Peebles sadly lost its railway link in the late 1960s....

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Old Penicuik by William F Hendrie

The attractive town of Penicuik was an early centre for paper-making, with several large mills built in the eighteenth century. ...

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Old Pentland (part of Lasswade) Monumental Inscriptions

Monumental inscriptions for Old Pentland Churchyard which is in Lasswade parish, compiled by Recording Angels....

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Old Portobello By Margeorie Mekie

50 pages of old photographs of this seaside town amalgamated with Edinburgh. Contains many group photos and scenes of the area....

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Old Ratho by William F Hendrie

Although Ratho has a church dating from Norman times, the village really began to prosper in the early nineteenth century when the Union Canal was cut. ...

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Old Roslin by Winnie Stevenson & Veronica Meikle

Believed to have been founded in AD 199, it was the establishment of the world-famous Rosslyn Chapel in 1446 which really put Roslin on the map. ...

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Old South Queensferry, Dalmeny and Blackness by Fiona Grant

No book on South Queensferry would be complete without a picture of the Forth Railway Bridge so there is one on the cover! Inside there is a good selection on the town....

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Old Tollcross, Morningside & Swanson by Malcolm Cant

The populous districts of Tollcross, Bruntsfield and Morningside are illustrated in the days when the cable tramway still operated, with more recent photographs showing their successors, the electric trams, shortly before their removal in the 1950s....

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Old West Calder by William F Hendrie

The quiet, rural parish of West Calder underwent dramatic change from the mid-nineteenth century onwards due to the Scottish shale oil industry. ...

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Old West Linton by T.C. Atkinson

Dating from the days when West Linton had a railway station, these sixty photographs represent the village when it was just beginning to attract new settlers from Edinburgh and when a trip down the main street by a wealthy local in his new car could still bring the crowds out to watch. The book also features images of Carlops, Lamancha, Romanno Bridge, Mountain Cross, Blyth Bridge, Kirkcurd and Do...

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Rosewell / Hawthornden (part of Lasswade) Monumental Inscriptions

Monumental inscriptions for Rosewell /Hawthornden Cemetery which is in Lasswade parish, compiled by Recording Angels....

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Roslin Monumental Inscriptions

Monumental inscriptions of Roslin burial grounds compiled by Recording Angels....

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Scotland’s Last Days of Colliery Steam by Tom Heavyside

Long after steam engines disappeared from passenger rail lines, they were used extensively around Scotland's coal mines until as late as 1981. In this collection of 58 superb photographs, taken by the author during the mid- to late 1970s, these engines are shown hard at work at collieries in Ayrshire, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire and the Lothians. Enhanced by informative capt...

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Shale Oil: A history of the industry in the Lothians by Guthrie Hutton

The fascinating story which begins with a visionary chemist from Glasgow, James Young, and his innovation and tenacity in developing and refining the process of extracting useable oil from the Lothian shale fields. Much has been written about mining and Scottish coal but relatively little about the shale oil industry which brought whole villages into existence and transformed an entire area west o...

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The Borders Last Days of Steam by W. A. C. Smith

Pictorial of the Borders last days of steam....

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The Lothians Last Days of Steam by W.A.C. Smith

As early as the seventeenth century, there were primitive wagonways serving coal pits in the Lothians. In 1831 the Edinburgh & Dalkeith (horse-drawn) railway opened, then the Lothians had their first taste of steam with the opening of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842. The next fifty years saw a substantial expansion of the railway network, with routes pushing out from Edinburgh to many town...

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