Sale of publications
Local History Publications
Publication | Price |
Behind God’s Back: a history of Blackridge | £5.00 |
Blackburn: West Lothian’s Cotton & Coal Town | £10.00 |
Caunle, Caunle, Birnin Bricht : Candle-making in the Scottish Shale Oil Industry | 80p |
Early Victorian Linlithgow | Booklet £2.50 CD £5.00 |
Foundlings : West Lothian’s Abandoned Children | 80p |
The Gemme’s a Bogey | £2.00 |
Hail Philpstoun’s Queen | £15.99 |
Henry Bell | 80p |
Linlithgow Combination Poorhouse | £2.00 |
Linlithgow Life and Times | £10.99 |
The Linlithgowshire Gipsies | £2.00 |
Mining Silver in the Bathgate Hills | 80p |
Pie Jock of West Calder | 80p |
Reconciling the Word and the World : the Rev. Dr John Fleming | £1.50 |
A Remarkable Life : Thomas Dick of Bathgate and Linlithgow | 80p |
Routes across West Lothian : a transport history map | £3.60 |
Stoneyburn : the first 100 years | £2.00 |
Waldie, George – History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow | £1.25 |
The Wee Bangour Express | 80p |
West Calder Memories | £1.00 |
West Lothian, Slavery and the Slave Trade | £1.50 |
Who was Lizzie Bryce? | 50p |
Winchburgh Railway Disaster 1862 | 80p |
Some of these are available for sale at branch libraries, and all are available from the West Lothian Local History Library, Hopefield Road, Blackburn, West Lothian, EH47 7HZ. To order, please contact the Local History Library to establish price plus postage and packing. We regret that payment cannot be made by debit/credit card.
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