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  • R12-00270: R12-00270-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of 2 men; one dressed in a suit and tie, the other in workers clothes. They are standing next to a forge(?) with hand tools on the wall behind them

  • R12-00271: R12-00271-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of group of 5 men; one is dressed in a suit and tie, the others are in working clothes and some are carrying hand tools

  • R12-00272: R12-00272-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of a group of 5 men, dressed in working clothes, one is smoking a pipe. From left to right – Mr Taylor, Mr Harper, unknown, Willie Black, unknown.

  • R12-00273: R12-00273-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of group shot of 19 men, all dressed in suits and ties. Back row (l-r) – all unknown. 2nd row (l-r) – unknown, unknown, Mr Crawford, unknown, unknown, Mr Paterson, unknown, Mr Taylor, unknown. Front row (l-r) – unknown, unknown, Mr Cowan, Mr Crawford, Mr Cowan, unknown, Mr Crawford. (The 2 Mr Cowans were brothers, as were the 2 Mr Crawfords)

  • R12-00274: R12-00274-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of Scottish Oils Ltd retirement group of 9 men. Back row (from left to right): Peter Rennie, Sandy Watson, ? Turnbull, Willie McDonald, John Steedman; front row (from left to right): Wullie Bird, unknown, unknown, Tom Archibald.

  • R12-00275: R12-00275-digital image

    Black and white digital image of list of Village nicknames Down the Years

  • R12-00276: R12-00276-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of Broxburn Oil Works

  • R12-00277: R12-00277-digital image

    Black and white digital image of piece of text regarding Winchburgh Brickworks, instituted in 1868 and owned by the Dougal family

  • R12-00278: R12-00278-digital image

    Black and white digital image of pencil drawing of Winchburgh Oil Works by Gordon Pettie, dated 26th May 1974

  • R12-00279: R12-00279-digital image

    Black and white digital image of newspaper cutting dated March 18th 1967, with the title 'Goodbye to Brickworks' regarding Winchburgh Brick and Tile works

  • R12-00280: R12-00280-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph of Winchburgh Cycling Club 1920, including (from left to right); Mr Tripany, unknown, unknown, Mr Scot, unknown.

  • R12-00281: R12-00281-digital image

    Black and white digital image of photograph the Winchburgh Fiddlers, 1920. Groups of 12 men each holding a string instrument. The leader of the Winchburgh Fiddlers was Dick Neilson and his brother was also part of the band – donor was unable to pick them out from the photograph.

  • R12-00282: R12-00282-article

    Article entitled “It's Scotland's Oil” written by owner Tony McVicar on Scottish Shale Oil history. The oncost worker, Thomas Brown McVicar, was Tony McVicar's grandfather. His father, also Thomas Brown McVicar, was born in 1897 and died in 1973, he was a member of the pit rescue team and attended the Burngrange Disaster in 1947

  • R12-00283: List of employees starting Military Service during and after WW2

    List of employees who left employment at Pumpherston Oil Works to start Military Service during and after the Second World War

  • R12-00284: R12-00284-copy image

    Copy image of black and white photograph of Main Street, Stoneyburn. Image depicts street scene with house on either side, people in the distance and a car in the foreground. The reverse (of the original) has a copyright stamp dated June 1930.

  • R12-00285: R12-00285-copy image

    Copy of black and white photograph of Cannop Crescent, Bents. Image depicts residential street scene. The reverse of the original has a copyright stamp dated June 1930.

  • R12-00286: R12-00286-copy image

    Copy of black and white photograph of Westend, Blackburn. Image depicts a residential street with a bus parked on the left side of the road. Reverse of original has a copyright stamp dated April 1929.

  • R12-00287: R12-00287-list

    Pumpherston Oil Company Rules and Regulations acknowledgment copy book of signatures

  • R12-00288: R12-00288-notebook

    Photocopies of memo notebook kept by a Pumpherston Oil Works Foreman, detailing the names etc of employees and rates of pay, along with general notes. This book was photocopied with the kind permission of the Chief Accountant at Pumpherston Works where the original remains (correct as of February 1985)

  • R12-00289: R12-00289-agreement book

    Photocopy of Pumpherston Oil Company agreement to have tools sharpened or repaired, signed by the employees. Dates from 1928 until 1950

  • R13-00001.001: R13-00001.001-copy image

    Black and white copy photograph of Sarah Reid taken on the drying green outside No77 Stewartfield, Broxburn. Circa 1930

  • R13-00001.002: R13-00001.002-reminiscence

    Written reminisence of Stewartfield Rows, Broxburn in the 1940s

  • R13-00002: R13-00002-report

    Report on 'Housing conditions in the Scottish Shale Field' by Theodore K. Irvine, 1914

  • R13-00003: R13-00003-copy image

    Black and white image of West Calder Railway Station

  • R13-00004: R13-00004-report

    Report by Robert M. Porter on 'Livingston Oil Museum. Shale Oil Production in Scotland, 1860-1962' Dated 14-06-1990 (Found in museum records - assumed to be a report researched and written by a former museum volunteer?)

  • R13-00005: R13-00005-article

    Article from July/August 2011 Edition of 'The Highlander Magazine' written by Rodger McCann. Article focuses on the Life and Works of James 'Paraffin' Young.

  • R13-00006: R13-00006-photograph

    Photographs (colour) showing a variety of oilwork adverts, postcards, clothing (Shell Mex and BP), signs, pumpheads, oil cans (Scottish Motor Agency etc)

  • R13-00007: R13-00007-article

    Newspaper article from Linlithgow Gazette regarding event organised to allow intergenerational work on the Shale Oil Industry. Member of staff from Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry was present at the event with objects and images from the collection.

  • R13-00008: R13-00008-extract

    Photocopy of a chapter from 'The Queen's Scotland, Edinburgh and the Lothians' 1952. Edited by Theo Lang. Publishers, Hodder and Stoughton

  • R13-00009: R13-00009-photograph

    Black and white photographs showing the stages of construction of the Livingston Spine Road over the River Almond c.1970s. Set includes R13-00009.001-R13-00009.007

  • R13-00010: R13-00010-book

    Book titled 'Scotland's First Oil Boom. The Scottish Shale Oil Industry, 1851-1914' by John McKay. First published in Great Britain in 2012 by John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd.

  • R13-00011: R13-00011-thesis

    Photocopy of thesis called 'The Catalyst Function of Older Buildings in a New Town' written by William Mark Turnbull

  • R13-00012: R13-00012-thesis

    Photocopy of dissertation called 'A Future for the Past' written by Vera Turnbull

  • R13-00013: R13-00013-reference

    Job reference for Mr Thomas Law from the Lanark Oil Company signed by James T. Wilsom (Chairman), E. Thomson (Director) and James Cowan (Secretary) dated 18th November 1886. Transcription of original letter is R13-00013.001

  • R13-00014: R13-00014-document

    Job application for 'Mineral Oil Works Manager' position by Mr Thomas Law, dated 4th December 1886. Transcription of original is R13-00014.001

  • R13-00015: R13-00015-reference

    Job reference for Mr Thomas Law from the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited dated 9th March 1887. Transcription of original is R13-00015.001

  • R13-00016: R13-00016-list

    Photocopy of List of Mines 1921

  • R13-00017: R13-00017-list

    Photocopy of 'List of Mines 1924 in Great Britain and The Isle of Man' prepared by His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines by Direction of the Secretary for mines. Scottish Mining Museum Library stamp on front page

  • R13-00018: R13-00018-copy image

    Black and white copy of photograph depicting the shale mine retorts in Newnes, NSW, Australia

  • R13-00019: R13-00019-photograph

    18 colour photographic prints picturing the demolition of the Centrex Training Centre (formerly MOTEC training centre) at Deans Industrial Estate, circa 2003-2005. Also includes photograph of new housing built on the site. Set includes R13-00019.001-R13-00019.018

  • R13-00020: R13-00020-copy image

    This is the same image as R12-00240 but shows more of the background. Black and white photograph (digital image) of the Mine Rescue Team (likely to be the oils no. 2 Rescue Team branch of the Edinburgh Central Mining Rescue Station from the Threemiletown, Philpstoun Area) Mine Rescue Station Truck behind, stretcher in front. James McWilliams second from right in back row and James REaddie, second from right in front row. Circa 1947.

  • R13-00021: R13-00021-copy image

    Black and white photograph (digital image) of mine rescue team with donors uncle, James McWilliams in the front row. The two men in overalls at either end are believed to be from Heriot Watt College, Dept. of Mining, Mine Rescue Station who provded training in life saving skills to mine rescue teams. Other names as stated on the photo. circa 1957

  • R13-00022: R13-00022-copy image

    Same image as R13-00021. Black and white photograph (digital image) of mine rescue team with donors uncle, James McWilliams in the front row. The two men in overalls at either end are believed to be from Heriot Watt College, Dept. of Mining, Mine Rescue Station who provded training in life saving skills to mine rescue teams. Other names as stated on the photo. circa 1957

  • R13-00023.001: R13-00023.001-copy image

    Black and white photograph depicting Oakbank Oil Company Limited Tank Wagon No.95, Load 12tons

  • R13-00023.002: R13-00023.002-copy image

    Black and white photograph depicting Oakbank Oil Company Limited Tank Wagon No. 73, Loan 15tons.

  • R13-00023.003: R13-00023.003-copy image

    Black and white photographs depicting Oakbank Oil Company Limited Tank Wagon No. 95, Load 12tons

  • R13-00024: R13-00024-document

    Information page on Lawhead Shale Mine including colour photographs relating to areas highlighted on the greyscale map of Tarbrax.

  • R13-00025: R13-00025-extract

    Photocopy of Chapter XIII 'The Shale-Oil Industry' from the book 'Strathbrock: The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Uphall, Edinburgh' by James Primrose (1898)

  • R13-00026: R13-00026-copy image

    Black and white photograph (copy and digital) of James Walkinshaw with quoiting trophies

  • R13-00027: R13-00027-document

    Photocopy of information sheet 'Robert Walkinshaw, World Champion Quoites'

  • R13-00028: R13-00028-copy image

    Collection of 5 colour images from memorial located at Livingston Village churchyard and was erected by workmen at Deans Oil Works in memory of employees who died in the First World War. R13-00028.001-R13-00028.005

  • R13-00029: R13-00029-copy image

    Black and white photograph (photocopy) of James Beveridge and his wife Margaret Gillies circa 1888. James Beveridge (born 1851), great grandfather of the donor was the works and general mining manager at Linlithgow Oil Company's Champfluerie (Bridgend) Oil Works and lived in Woodside House, Bridgend. (Related objects are LVSAV2010.146 and LVSAV2010.162)

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