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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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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.
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...More Info
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...More Info
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.
The Home Front 1914-1915 Volume 3
Third volume of a trilogy. This book completes the FACHRS Home Front project publications. Volume 3 covers Recruitment and Volunteers, it looks at the impact of the First World War on employment in the commercial sector and industry, in agriculture, in women's role in industry and agriculture, and food and rationing. Agriculture experienced a major loss of men which impacted on food production an...More Info