Old Photograph West Calder Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people in West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish town located 4 miles west of Livingston, was an important centre for the oil shale economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A memorial in the centre of the town remembers the fifteen men killed on 10 January 1947 as a result of an explosion at the Burngrange oil shale mine southwest of the town. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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