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Northumberland Poll book of 1826
Register which includes names, locations and property of voters... More Info
Product Code: GRD418
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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.
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.
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...More Info
The Pentland Hills by Kenneth R. Bogle & Susan
The Pentlands cover an area of approximately 75 square miles and are some of the best loved hills in Scotland. Admired by Sir Walter Scott and beloved of Robert Louis Stevenson they house many archaeological treasures among their peaks including iron-age hill forts and stone with cup and ring markings. The photographs in this volume from the nineteenth and early 20th century evoke a gentler age wh...More Info
Wheels around Edinburgh By Alan Brotchie
50 pages of old photographs of Trams, buses, carts and Trucks in and around Edinburgh.