Museum Collection (Numerical list)
LVSAV2011.087: Postcard - "The Canal, Linlithgow"
Sepia photographic postcard showing a canal towpath in Linlithgow.LVSAV2011.088: Postcard - "Bellsyde, Linlithgow"
B&W printed postcard showing a family relaxing outside Bellsyde in Linlithgow.LVSAV2011.089: Postcard - Port Edgar naval base
B&W printed postcard showing the Royal Navy Base, Port Edgar.LVSAV2011.090: Postcard - Port Edgar naval base
Sepia printed postcard showing Port Edgar Royal Navy Base on the Firth of ForthLVSAV2011.091: Postcard - "Gala day 1909"
Sepia photographic postcard showing Fauldhouse gala day parade in 1909.LVSAV2011.092: Postcard - "Alderstone"
Sepia photographic postcard showing Alderstone House.LVSAV2011.093: Postcard - "A Typical Scotch Washer-Woman"
Coloured printed postcard showing a woman treading clothes in soapy water.LVSAV2011.094: Postcard - "Almond Aqueduct. Top View."
Sepia printed postcard showing a lady guiding her horse-drawn plough while watching an approaching barge crossing the Almond aqueduct.LVSAV2011.095: Postcard - "Houston Mill, Uphall"
Coloured printed postcard showing Houston Mill, Uphall.LVSAV2011.096: Postcard - "Co-operative Society, Pumpherston"
B&W printed postcard showing the substantial corner building of the West Calder Co-operative Society's Pumpherston branch with early electric street light in the foreground, c 1910.LVSAV2011.097: Postcard - "Garden Party, Kilronan Park. July, 1913"
B&W photographic postcard showing a group of clergymen at Kilronan Park, East Calder.LVSAV2011.099: Mossend Swift Football Card
Collector's card, football team "Mossend Swifts" c1890. Oval in shape, picture in centre features a paraffin barrel with two shale miner's picks.LVSAV2011.102: Magazine - "The Electric Railway" Volume 2
Magazine "The Electric Railway", volume 2, number 14, February 1947.. Article "A Scottish Electric Railway", with photograph, on front page Oakbank Oil Company's Electric Railway at Niddry Castle Oil Works, Winchburgh.LVSAV2011.107: Record Sheet
Two unused record sheets for recording production data and yields from processing at crude shale oil works. Columns to record: date, shale used, oil data, sulphate of ammonia data, scrubber data, yields and remarks. c 1950LVSAV2011.108: Postcard - "West Calder Football Club"
B&W photographic postcard showing West Calder Football Club players/staffLVSAV2011.109: Postcard - "A Double Scotch from West Calder"
B&W glossy printed multiview postcard of West Calder.LVSAV2011.111: Postcard - "Newton Village, Near South Queensferry"
B&W printed postcard showing view east in Newton village from the Duddingston arms.LVSAV2011.112: Postcard - "West Calder U.P. Church & Manse."
B&W printed postcard showing West Calder United Presbyterian Church of Scotland & manse.LVSAV2011.114: Book - "Linlithgowshire"
"Linlithgowshire - Cambridge County Geographies" by T.S. Muir, Cambridge University Press, 1912LVSAV2011.115: Postcard - "Main Street, Broxburn."
Coloured printed postcard showing Main Street, Broxburn.LVSAV2011.116: Postcard - "The Low Binn, Burntisland"
B&W photographic postcard showing the miner's rows of 'The Low Binn, Burntisland'LVSAV2011.117: Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
B&W photographic postcard showing Main Street, West Calder. c1940. Lavex soap advertisement visible on the side of a building. Cooperative building and Thistle Tower are visible.LVSAV2011.118: Telescope - Presented to Thomas Thornton
Table top brass telescope in wooden (mahogany) presentation box with plaque "Presented to Thomas Thornton by his employees and new friends at Auchenheath Collieries on his return from a trip to Australia.LVSAV2011.119: Shale Miners Lamp
Shale miner's electric safety cap lamp and battery pack. Concordia type. Alloy battery case housing a 3 cell alkaline tubular battery unit with rubber sheathed cable to lamp, c 1950.LVSAV2011.120: Postcard - "The Low Binn, Burntisland."
Coloured printed postcard showing the terraced miner's rows of Low Binn village, Burntisland.LVSAV2011.121: Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
B&W printed postcard showing Main Street, West Calder. Circa 1940. R Duncan, Watchmaker shop premises on the left.LVSAV2011.122: Postcard - "West End, Broxburn"
Sepia photographic postcard showing a street scene in Broxburn's West End.LVSAV2011.123: Book - Mineral Oils and Their By-products''
book, Mineral Oils and Their By-products by Iltyd I Redwood including a short history of the Scottish shale oil industry, the geological and geographical distribution of Scottish shales, recovery of acid and soda used in oil refining and list of patents relating to apparatus and processes for obtaining and refining mineral oils. Published by E&FN Spon Ltd, London, 1897, first edition. Stamped inside front cover Scottish Oils Ltd, 53 Bothwell Street, Glasgow.LVSAV2011.124: Postcard - "North Village, Pumpherston"
B&W photographic postcard showing the oil worker's housing (with distinctive crenellations) at North Village, Pumpherston - Built by Pumpherston Oil Company Ltd.LVSAV2011.125: Postcard - "Livingston Station"
Coloured printed postcard showing Pumpherston Oil Company's oil worker's housing at Main Road, Livingston Station, looking south.LVSAV2011.126: Postcard - "Broxburn Oil Refinery Works"
B&W photographic postcard showing a general view of Broxburn Oil Company Works in operation.LVSAV2011.127: Postcard - "Greendykes Road, Broxburn"
B&W printed postcard showing a busy commercial and residential street scene on Greendykes Road, with Broxburn Oil Company Works in the distance. c1920.LVSAV2011.128: Postcard - "Greendykes Road, Broxburn"
Coloured printed postcard showing a busy commercial and residential street scene with Broxburn Oil Works in the distance.LVSAV2011.129: Postcard - "Broxburn"
Coloured printed multi-view postcard showing places of interest in and around Broxburn.LVSAV2011.130: Postcard - "Oilworks, Broxburn"
Coloured postcard showing a view of the coking stills at Broxburn Oil Company Works looking south east towards Greendykes Road.LVSAV2011.133: Sample Case - Scottish Oils Ltd
Sample case from Scottish Oils Ltd containing samples of crude shale oil, crude wax or scale, heavy oil and paraffin, scrubber naphtha, naphtha, light diesoleum 100, sulphate of ammonia, motor spirit, byprox and comprox.LVSAV2011.134: Railway Wagon - 12 Ton A-Class Railway Tank Wagon
12 ton A-Class railway tank wagon built by R Y Pickering, Wishaw for the Oakbank Oil Company Ltd.LVSAV2011.136: Postcard - "Established Church, West Calder"
B&W printed postcard showing the Established Church in the West End of West Calder, looking south.LVSAV2011.137: Postcard - "Lower Parkend, Hopetown"
B&W printed postcard showing gardens and dwellings at Lower Parkend, Hopetown.LVSAV2011.138: Postcard - "West End, Kirkliston. G.T.F."
Coloured printed postcard showing a group of children standing in the street in the West End of Kirkliston.LVSAV2011.139: Postcard - Philpstoun House
B&W photographic postcard showing Philpstoun House and grounds.LVSAV2011.140: Postcard - "Linlithgow"
B&W printed postcard showing Linlithgow Palace and St. Michael's Church with the railway station in the foreground.LVSAV2011.141: Postcard - "Station Road, Kirkliston"
Coloured printed postcard showing a street scene on Station Road, Kirkliston.LVSAV2011.142: Postcard - "Champfleurie House"
B&W printed postcard showing Champfleurie House, Linlithgow.LVSAV2011.143: Postcard - "Duntarvie Castle"
Coloured printed postcard showing the approach to Duntarvie Castle, Winchburgh.LVSAV2011.144: Postcard - "White Quarries School, Hopetown"
B&W printed postcard showing White Quarries School and grounds, Hopetown [Hopetoun].LVSAV2011.145: Postcard - "Clifton Hall"
Coloured printed postcard showing Clifton Hall near Broxburn, which was the home of Robert Bell from 1884 until his death in 1894.LVSAV2011.146: Postcard - "Midhope Castle, Hopetoun"
Coloured printed postcard showing Midhope Castle, Hopetoun.LVSAV2011.147: Postcard - "Glendevon House, Winchburgh"
B&W printed postcard showing Glendevon House and gardens, Winchburgh.LVSAV2011.148: Postcard - "Hopetoun Street, Bathgate"
Sepia photographic postcard showing a street scene on Hopetoun Street in Bathgate, looking north east.LVSAV2011.149: Postcard - "Lower Parkhead, Hopetoun"
Coloured printed postcard showing Lower Parkhead, Hopetoun.LVSAV2011.150: Minute book - Workmen's Institute, Winchburgh
Minute book of Committee Meetings of Oakbank Workmen's Institute, Winchburgh,