Blackburn, West Lothian
Blackburn maps
Historic maps of Blackburn and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Blackburn maps
Historic map of Scotland
Illustrated Victorian map of West Lothian
Blackburn books
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Edinburgh Photographic Memories
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6 Blackburn photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Blackburn
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I left St Mary's Secondary to go to work in Riddochhill Pit. Wow!. Left the coal mine to work for Ritchie Brothers for a couple of years and headed to Lancaster to join my big sister, Veronica, in Lancaster. I sold Life Insurance for The Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society for a year or so and then emigrated to BC, Canada. Memories... [more]
Shared on 08 June 2007
My sister got married in the Hind in 1984 (where those big windows are above the shopping centre. A lot of my family went to the wedding. The centre has changed a lot as it is now an indoor centre. I do remember the centre looking like this. I was born in Blackburn and also knew the centre looking like this... [more]
Shared on 15 December 2007
Saturday mornings at the centre
I used to go to the Centre every Saturday morning. The disco started at 11am. Many of my friends went, Shawsy Broon was the DJ, a pie was 5p (1/-), and myself and 3 other friends were the centre GO-GO dancers. It was the highlight of our week,and I have many happy memories.
Mrs Anita Crowter (nee Hopkins)
Shared on 08 July 2009
West Lothian memories
Great memories singing in the Co-op choir. Putting on a show for the locals who bought a ticket and were given a bag of food and a drink to eat during the interval. Also going to Corstorphine for the choir competition and Scottish country dancing. Lots of great memories going to the Co-op Xmas and New Year dances. The Locarno, The... [more]
Shared on 21 February 2009
We all used to go to the burn every day in the summer with a bag of pieces of carluke steak (jam), we were there all day building dams to make the water deeper. When the pit horn sounded we knew the miners would be coming home with spare pit pieces. I learned to swim in the Briech Burn.
Shared on 19 August 2009
Mine is not a personal memory but Uphall Station was the birthplace of my mother. Mum was born on the 29th of April 1924. Her parents were Hugh and Annie Campbell ( nee Mooney ). My grandparents and Mum immigrated to New Zealand in 1925. I am intending to visit Scotland in the next couple of years and will be visiting... [more]
Shared on 15 June 2008
Linlithgo, Lanarkshire Scotland is the place where my Dad was born in 1901.
Shared on 07 February 2007
Extracts From Blackburn & West Lothian books
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Edinburgh Photographic Memories
Again, this building is typical of the 1960s. Everything looks unused in this photograph, the 'Old folks' home looks unloved in as yet, and the trees seem to have been just planted.
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Edinburgh Photographic Memories
The precinct is typical of a style that dominated redevelopment and new town schemes of the late 1950s and 1960s. Examples can be seen throughout the UK, many of them now looking the worse for wear.
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Edinburgh Photographic Memories
The River Almond flows from Blackburn to the three towns of East, Mid and West Calder. It was at Mid Calder in 1556 that John Knox first administered Communion according to Protestant rites.
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