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 - "Main Street, West Calder" B&W photographic postcard showing view westward along Main St. from East End. Prominent sign for Thomson's Garage.

Postcard - "West Calder, East End"
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Postcard - "West Calder, East End" B&W photographic postcard, showing East End, looking east, with the frontage of the People's hall and Pie Jock's bakery and cafe on the left.

Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder" Tinted printed postcard, with view of West End, West Calder, looking West

Postcard - shop front of A. Mungle, Grocers, West Calder.
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Postcard - shop front of A. Mungle, Grocers, West Calder. B&W photographic postcard showing the shop front of A. Mungle, Grocers and Ironmongers, with five staff members.

Postcard - "Bird's Eye View, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Bird's Eye View, West Calder" B&W printed postcard showing a procession on West Calder Main Street, looking west. Addiewell South bing and Addiewell Chemical Works are visible top right.

Postcard - "East End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "East End, West Calder" Black and white photographic postcard depicting the East End of West Calder

Postcard - "West Calder, Co-operative Store"
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Postcard - "West Calder, Co-operative Store" B&W printed postcard showing Coop store at Union St. Postally used and postdated June 19th 1906. Part of The Albany Series 2641. Printed by J.S. Wilson, West Calder. Front depicts the outside of the co-operative store with two children standing to the left of the entrance.

Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder" Coloured, printed postcard showing view west along Main St.

Postcard - "Opening of West Calder bowling season 1908"
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Postcard - "Opening of West Calder bowling season 1908" B&W photographic postcard showing group at the West Calder bowling green.

Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder" B&W printed postcard, looking west along West End, West Calder.

Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder" Sepia coloured postcard depicting Main Street in West Calder

Postcard - "West Calder U.P. Church & Manse."
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Postcard - "West Calder U.P. Church & Manse." B&W printed postcard showing West Calder United Presbyterian Church of Scotland & manse.

Postcard - "View From Clock Tower, West Calder"
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Postcard - "View From Clock Tower, West Calder" B&W printed postcard showing the view from the clock tower (Thistle Tower) with Addiewell South shale bing seen in the background

Postcard - "People's Hall, West Calder"
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Postcard - "People's Hall, West Calder" Black and White Photographic postcard of People's Hall, West Calder.

Postcard - "Gloag Place, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Gloag Place, West Calder" Sepia printed postcard showing Gloag Place in West Calder, looking south towards Main Street.

Postcard - "The Station, West Calder"
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Postcard - "The Station, West Calder" B&W printed postcard showing a steam train approaching from the east at West Calder railway station.

Postcard - "Bird's Eye View, East End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Bird's Eye View, East End, West Calder" Sepia printed postcard showing the public library and bandstand in the east end of West Calder, with Limefield United Free Church in the background.

Postcard- "The Halls, West Calder"
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Postcard- "The Halls, West Calder" Sepia printed postcard showing the 'People's Palace' to the east of the Cleugh Brae in West Calder.

Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main Street, West Calder" B & W printed postcard showing Main Street, West Calder

Postcard - "East End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "East End, West Calder" B & W printed postcard showing the east end of West Calder with the Thistle Tower visible. The road to the left is the Cleugh Brae.

Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder" Sepia printed postcard showing the West End of West Calder. Looking west along Main Street.

Postcard - "Main St. West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Main St. West End, West Calder" Coloured printed postcard showing the view west up Main Street in the West End of West Calder.

Postcard - "Harburn Road, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Harburn Road, West Calder" B & W photographic postcard showing Harburn Road, with the library (built by Andrew Carnegie, 1904) on the left.

Postcard - "West End, West Calder"
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Postcard - "West End, West Calder" Coloured postcard depicting a street in the West End of West Calder, with people crowding the pavements

Postcard - "New Houses, West Calder."
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Postcard - "New Houses, West Calder." B&W printed postcard showing the newly built Parkhead Cottages, looking north east from the Harburn Road.

Postcard - "West Calder Station"
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Postcard - "West Calder Station" B&W printed postcard showing a steam train approaching West Calder railway station from the east.

Postcard - "High School, West Calder"
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Postcard - "High School, West Calder" B & W printed postcard showing the high school in West Calder from the fields east of Harwood Road (looking north).

Postcard - St Bridget's Church, West Calder
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Postcard - St Bridget's Church, West Calder B&W printed postcard showing St Bridget's Church in West Calder.

Postcard - "Free Library and Bandstand, West Calder"
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Postcard - "Free Library and Bandstand, West Calder" B & W photographic postcard showing the village library and bandstand, with Limefield United Free Church visible in the background.

Postcard - Harburn Road, West Calder
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Postcard - Harburn Road, West Calder Coloured photographic postcard of a street entitled: 'Harburn Road, West Calder'. Postally used.