Stepping Stones CD publication. Contents of the 1837 Edinburghshire and Haddington Trade Directory Towns and villages covered: Edinburghshire: Collinton Slateford Currie Kirknewton Corstorphine Dalkeith Heriot Borthwick Carrington Cockpen Kirkliston Lasswade Liberton Loanhead Roslin Calder Musselburgh Fisherrow Inveresk Path-head Cranston Pennycuick Glencross Portobello Joppa Ratho Haddington: Aberlady Athelstaneford Berwick Bolton Dirleton Dunbar Fala Garvald Gladsmuir Haddi... More Info
Stepping Stones CD publication. Contents of the 1848 Edinburgh and Leith Trade Directory Surname List Directory Street Directory Professions and Trade Directory Law Directory County Directory Parliament Directory and Public Offices Bank Directory Church Directory Conveyance Directory Names too late for insertion... More Info
Can't find what you're looking for? Try using our filter system to narrow down your search.
The attractive town of Penicuik was an early centre for paper-making, with several large mills built in the eighteenth century.
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.
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.
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.
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...More Info