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Books / Lothians Illustrated Books
Pictorial books of bygone days
Bygone Leith by Guthrie Hutton
Bygone Leith compliments Guthrie Hutton's previous book, Old Leith, and features a selection of photographs illustrating this historic district....
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Dalkeith Since the War by Craig Stratham
Dalkeith emerged from the second world war as a town undergoing enormous changes. The Woodburn housing estate was being built to the south....
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Early Railways of Dalkeith by Brian Scott
A Pictorial of the early railways of Dalkeith....
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East Lothian Villages by David Anderson
This book covers a huge area of East Lothian with photographs of the following villages: Burnfoot, Stenton, Cockenzie, Port Seton, Oldhamstocks....
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Edinburgh Last Days of Steam by W.A.C. Smith
Railway services in Edinburgh began in earnest in 1846 and for 12 year thereafter the Scottish capital enjoyed major national rail links....
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Edinburgh's Trams:The Last Years. North Vol.1 by R.J.S. Wiseman
Richard Wiseman took extensive photographs of Edinburgh's tramways between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16th November 1956...
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Edinburgh's Trams. The Last Year. East Vol.4 by R.J.S Wiseman
Richard Wiseman's photographs of Edinburgh's tramways taken between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16 November 1956....
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Edinburgh's Trams. The Last Years. South Vol.2 by R.J.S. Wiseman
Richard Wiseman's photographs of Edinburgh's tramways taken between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16 November 1956....
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Edinburgh's Trams. The Last Years.West Vol.3 by R.J.S. Wiseman
Richard Wiseman's photographs of Edinburgh's tramways taken between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16 November 1956....
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Forth and Clyde Canal, The comeback canal. by Guthrie Hutton
This is the follow up to Guthrie Hutton's 1991 book a Forth and Clyde Canal (now out of print)....
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Lost Railways of the Lothians by Gordon Stansfield
With Edinburgh as its hub, the combined area of West, Mid and East Lothian once hosted a considerable railway network....
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Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders by Gordon Stansfield
This book recalls the lines, including the Waverly line, and the branch lines as they once existed in the nineteenth fifties and sixties before..........
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Mining in the Lothians by Guthrie Hutton
3 A story of mining in the Lothians, East and West. Full of fascinating detail and photographs....
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Old Armadale and Blackridge by John Hood
This title showcases the villages of Armadale and Blackridge during their most prosperous period in the earl twentieth century....
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Old Cockenzie and Port Seton by Bernard Byrom
The book includes illustrations and commentaries of the fishing industry at Port Seton. There are photographs of street scenes and famous local houses as well as scenes of leisure activities including Seton Sands Camping Ground opened in 1924. ...
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Old Colinton by Peter Gray
50 pages of old photographs of the village and surrounding area, incl churches & large houses, also includes Juniper Green ....
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Old Cramond by Peter & William J Scholes
50Picturesque and historic Cramond is the site of the earliest recorded settlement in Scotland, and several millennia later was occupied by Romans....
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Old Currie, Balerno & Juniper Green by George Monies
An illustrated history of these three areas of west Edinburgh, featuring 53 rare period photographs taken in the days when each was a village in its own right and not just a suburb of the city....
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Old Dalkeith By Rhona Wilson
50 pages of old photographs from around the turn of the 20th century to the 1960`s....
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Old Dalry in Edinburgh by Malcolm Cant
The 48 pages of Old Dalry feature a series of atmospheric pictures illustrating all aspects of life in this part of Edinburgh. ...
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Old Dunbar By David Anderson
50 pages of old photographs from about 1880 to just before the 2nd World War....
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Old Edinburgh views from above by John A Jones
This collection of photographs dating from 1930 are among the earliest aerial views of the city ever taken. Lost for over fifty years, they show how the city has changed....
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Old Gullane, Aberlady, Dirleton and Drem by Donald Lindgren
Within an area widely considered to be a golfer’s paradise and where the game has been taught and played since the 1600s, these four villages are steeped in many other kinds of history as well. Aberlady dates to the seventh century, when a chapel was built there facilitating traffic between Iona and Lindisfarne....
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Old Haddington by Craig Statham
Detailed captions accompany this collection of old photographs of Haddington, the East Lothian market town....
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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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