LVSAV2010.059-negative
code: LVSAV2010.059
Description
4 photographic negatives of 17 Greendykes Road, Broxburn (Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company Ltd, Hopetoun Works manager's house, the Reid family moved to this property in 1943), formal garden with houses and a shale bing in the distance, man and woman standing in a garden in front of miner's rows, 3 women standing in a garden with miner's rows in the background. All images are thought to have been taken at 17 Greendykes Road) former property of George Reid George Reid (1889-1990), 17 Greendykes Road, Broxburn worked at: Oakbank Oil Works, 1908 to 1931, Evaporating Plant & Retort Shift Foreman; Oakbank Oil Works, 1932, Demolition Manager; Hopetoun Oil Works, 1932 to 1943, Relief Foreman & Foreman; Hopetoun Oil Works, 1943 to 1946, Manager; Hayscraig Quarry & Hopetoun Oil Works, 1949 to 1953, Manager & Demolition Manager; Roman Camp Oil Works, 1953 to 1959, Manager & Demolition Manager