Old pictures of West Calder
WEST CALDER is a parish and village, in Edinburgh small debts court district, and the parish being about 10 miles in length and 5.5 in breadth; the village is about 5 miles south-south-west from Mid-Calder, 16.5 south-west from Edinburgh and 31 east from Glasgow, and has a station close by on the Edinburgh and Glasgow section of the Caledonian railway. The district generally is highly cultivated. The Paraffin Oil Works, established in this parish in 1866 by Mr. James Young, the patentee, who purchased several large properties here, containing some beds of rich bituminous shale, have created a new village, called Addiewell.
In the immediate vicinage, at a place called Castle Craig, are the traces of a Roman encampment. A newspaper called the " Midlothian Advertiser and West Lothian and Lanarkshire News " is published every Saturday. The Right Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas P.C., M.P. of Craigs, Dumfries, Thomas Barr, of Harburn, Mrs. Mary Walker, of Limefield, and Young's Paraffin Oil Co. are the principal landowners. The area comprises 21,981 acres; rateable value, £35,748; the population in 1891 was 8,456, and in 1901, 8,092, including 2,652 in the town and 1,591 in Addiewell. The population of West Calder ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 5,038.
Slater’s Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland, 1903
Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West Calder, East End"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - shop front of A. Mungle, Grocers, West Calder.
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Postcard - "Bird's Eye View, West Calder"
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Postcard - "East End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West Calder, Co-operative Store"
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Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Opening of West Calder bowling season 1908"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West Calder U.P. Church & Manse."
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Postcard - "View From Clock Tower, West Calder"
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Postcard - "People's Hall, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Gloag Place, West Calder"
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Postcard - "The Station, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Bird's Eye View, East End, West Calder"
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Postcard- "The Halls, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "East End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main St. West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Harburn Road, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "New Houses, West Calder."
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Postcard - "West Calder Station"
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Postcard - "High School, West Calder"
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Postcard - St Bridget's Church, West Calder
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Postcard - "Free Library and Bandstand, West Calder"
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Postcard - Harburn Road, West Calder
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