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  • R10-00300: R10-00300-copy image

    This 1922 photograph of Pumpherston Oil Works shows the offices (middle right) with, beyond and fronting ''Soldier's Wood'', the garage which housed Mr. Bryson, the manager's car, and also the works horse. The shale breaker is in the foreground, the haulage line running diagonally through the picture. The nearer chimney is that of the Woodison and Lancashire boilers while in the background smokes over the boiler chimney at no. 5 mine. Also to be noted are the store and workshops (centre) the wax sheds, the sweating sheds, and fronting it, the Works pond. The two storage tanks in the background were commissioned during the first world war by the Ministry and identified as the ''Admiralty Tanks''.

  • R10-00301: R10-00301-copy image

    Retort workers from Tarbrax oil works. 1920's, but prior to 1925 when the works shut down. Johnny Peterson (Grandfather of John Kenneway) on extreme right.

  • R10-00302: R10-00302-copy image

    Pumpherston Oil Refinery. This clearly shows Tanks Nos. 181, 182, 183, 184 and gives a further view of the pipe route damaged. On the extreme right hand the Bubble Tower of the Spirit Plant is clearly scorched. May, 1937

  • R10-00303: R10-00303-copy image

    Westwood Oil Works, spent shale conveyor (one of two) Nos. 1 & 2 tips in background.

  • R10-00304: R10-00304-copy image

    Winding engine room for No. 1 Pit. Pumpherston Oil Co. (Probably Breich Pit). Westwood.

  • R10-00305: Photo - haulage from Breich No.1 & 2 pits

    Hutch railway line between Seafield & Westwood. With Almond pump house on Left See Photograph 14 & 28.

  • R10-00306: R10-00306-copy image

    Burngrange No.1 and 2 pit. Wooden Pillar Support between No. 11 and No. 12 Levels.

  • R10-00307: R10-00307-copy image

    Dismantling the old Refinery – Pumpherston.

  • R10-00308: R10-00308-copy image

    Horse Drawn Float, Decorated for a gala day in an unknown village.

  • R10-00309: R10-00309-copy image

    An Edwardian family group. Taken probably for a marriage or christening. Lothians.

  • R10-00310: Photo - detergent bottling at Pumpherston

    Filling bottles with Iranopol detergent, at Pumpherston c.1948?

  • R10-00311: R10-00311-copy image

    Burngrange No.1 and 2 Pithead. Underground fresh air base. Fire Brigade standing by.

  • R10-00312: R10-00312-copy image

    Tunnelling through burnt shale. Hutch full of shale with canary in cage. Burngrange.

  • R10-00313: Photo - labelling detergent bottles at Pumpherston

    Labelling bottles of Iranopol detergent at Pumpherston. c.1948?

  • R10-00314: R10-00314-copy image

    Oakbank Main Street 1922.

  • R10-00315: R10-00315-copy image

    Oakbank Oil Co. – No. 2 Locomotive. Westwood.

  • R10-00316: R10-00316-copy image

    Workers at Woodall & Duckham in England. (Woodall & Duckham were the suppliers of retorts to the Scottish Oil Industry)

  • R10-00317: R10-00317-copy image

    Winchburgh & Niddry Castle Oil Works. From Hopetoun Bing.

  • R10-00318: R10-00318-copy image

    Winchburgh

  • R10-00319: R10-00319-copy image

    Laboratory at BP Detergents, Pumpherston Refinery.

  • R10-00320: R10-00320-copy image

    Plate 9 – General View of Existing Wax Analysis Room. Laboratory at BP Detergents, Pumpherston Refinery.

  • R10-00321: R10-00321-copy image

    Plate 10 – General View of Existing Blending Room. Laboratory at BP Detergents, Pumpherston Refinery.

  • R10-00322: R10-00322-copy image

    Oil Workers from Tarbrax Oil Works, prior to 1925 as the works shut down in that year.

  • R10-00323: R10-00323-copy image

    Air-raid shelter at Pumpherston Refinery. Outside View. (See also The bricks were made at Pumpherston and the inside was an old boiler, converted and fitted with seats).

  • R10-00324: R10-00324-copy image

    Inside an air-raid shelter at Pumpherston Refinery. The inner lining of the shelter is a boiler, converted and fitted with benches.

  • R10-00325: R10-00325-copy image

    Electrically powered water pump, possibly at Breich No.1 & 2.

  • R10-00326: R10-00326-copy image

    5 Miners posing down a mine.

  • R10-00327: R10-00327-copy image

    3 miners posing down a mine.

  • R10-00328: R10-00328-copy image

    1 miner posing down a mine.

  • R10-00329: R10-00329-copy image

    5 Miners posing down a mine.

  • R10-00330: R10-00330-copy image

    3 miners posing down a mine.

  • R10-00331: R10-00331-copy image

    Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company. Limited, Addiewell Works, West Calder, Scotland.

  • R10-00332: R10-00332-copy image

    Laboratory at BP Detergents, Pumpherston Refinery.

  • R10-00333: R10-00333-copy image

    Forge Stamp details from rear axle of THE LAMP OIL WAGON. (A)

  • R10-00334: R10-00334-copy image

    Forge Stamp details from rear axle of THE LAMP OIL WAGON. (B)

  • R10-00335: R10-00335-copy image

    A shale oil miner – John Shearow, drilling wall for input of explosives.

  • R10-00336: R10-00336-copy image

    Scottish shale oil companies were the first to introduce the "bulk" distribution of oil by road tankers. From c.1905 depots were established in many Scottish towns from where horse drawn tankers operated, filling householder's containers of lamp oil at the roadside. Black and White photograph, Petroleum Delivery Wagon, pre 1914. Horse drawn oil road tanker.

  • R10-00337: R10-00337-copy image

    Scottish shale oil companies were the first to introduce the "bulk" distribution of oil by road tankers. From c.1905 depots were established in many Scottish towns from where horse drawn tankers operated, filling householder's containers of lamp oil at the roadside. Colour photograph, Petroleum Delivery Wagon, pre 1914. Horse drawn oil road tanker.

  • R10-00338: R10-00338-copy image

    Dr. James Young. In 1850 a Scottish chemist, Dr. James Young, discovered a process by which paraffin waxes, a type of kerosene and lubricating oil, could be obtained from a natural oil flowing into the workings of a Derbyshire coal mine.

  • R10-00339: R10-00339-copy image

    Scottish shale oil companies were the first to introduce the "bulk" distribution of oil by road tankers. From c.1905 depots were established in many Scottish towns from where horse drawn tankers operated, filling householder's containers of lamp oil at the roadside. Black and White photograph, Petroleum Delivery Wagon, pre 1914. Horse drawn oil road tanker.

  • R10-00340: R10-00340-copy image

    Hutch being emptied into the crusher.

  • R10-00341: R10-00341-copy image

    Messrs. William Heggies grocery and Licensed Wines and Spirit shop in the main Street in Broxburn.

  • R10-00342: R10-00342-copy image

    Motor stopped on road, beside BP fuel pump, with family aside on path.

  • R10-00343: R10-00343-copy image

    Best dressed horse, at Tarbrax Gala Day, 1911 Most of the housing in the remote upland village of Tarbrax was constructed in the first decade of the 20th century by the Tarbrax Oil Company, to house workers from the company's mines and oil works. As in many shale oil communities, the annual gala day was a major occasion. This view shows James Wilson, aged 15, who one first prize in the best dressed horse competition. The horse was presumably employed in the company's mines. Its remote location meant that the community of Tarbrax suffered particular hardship following closure of the oil works in 1925.

  • R10-00344: R10-00344-copy image

    Burngrange No. 1 and 2 pit. Mine rescue services in contact with surface personnel using a portable telephone.

  • R10-00345: R10-00345-copy image

    Conveyor belt taking the shale on its way from breaker to the retorts – Westwood.

  • R10-00346: R10-00346-copy image

    Alanmor Patent wax sweating stove manufactured at AF Craig, Paisley for the Burmah Oil Company who own the patent.

  • R10-00347: R10-00347-copy image

    Winchburgh electric railway: electric locomotive with passenger train. This view shows either Oakbank No 5 or No 6, (built by Andrew Barclay & Sons with electrical components supplied by Metropolitan Vickers for Oakbank Oil Company Ltd in 1942 or 1946, respectively) with a mixed train of shale wagons and passenger "carriages". The railway had six of these windowless vans for carrying mineworkers between the mines and their homes in Winchburgh. This photograph suggests that many preferred to travel on the open shale wagons being transported to Niddry Castle Crude Oil Works

  • R10-00348: R10-00348-copy image

    Winchburgh electric railway: electric locomotive Oakbank No 1. Two locomotives were built by Baldwin of Philadelphia, USA. Each had two 25hp motors and operated via a trolley pole from an overhead 500V DC supply. This view shows "Oakbank Oil Co. No 1" (Baldwin 20586 of 1902). Both No 1 & No 2 survived until the closure of the line in 1960.

  • R10-00349: R10-00349-copy image

    Winchburgh electric railway: electric locomotive Oakbank No 2. Two locomotives were built by Baldwin of Philadelphia, USA. Each had two 25 hp motors operating via a trolley pole from an overhead 500V DC supply. This view shows "Oakbank Oil Co. No 2" (Baldwin 20587 of 1902). No 2 is seen in action with a maintenance bogie; perhaps having been relegated to light duties only. It can be seen that these original locomotives offered their driver little protection from the elements. Both No 1 & No 2 survived until the closure of the line in 1960.

  • R10-00350: R10-00350-copy image

    Winchburgh electric railway: steeple cab electric locomotive Oakbank No 4. In 1902, the Oakbank Oil Company Ltd opened a new crude oil works at Niddry Castle served by new mines beneath Hopetoun Estate to the north of Winchburgh. The Company pioneered the use of electricity in their works and also applied it to power a two mile 2'6" gauge railway linking mines with the oil works. The railway had six locomotives all of which survived until the closure of the line in 1960. This view shows "Oakbank Oil Co. No 4", built By English Electric, their No. 722 of 1921.

  • R10-00351: R10-00351-copy image

    Winchburgh electric railway: e;ectric locomotive Oakbank No 1 in action, trying to re-rail a delinquent truck. Two locomotives were built by Baldwin of Philadelphia, USA for the Oakbank Oil Company Ltd. Each had two 25hp motors and operated via a trolley pole from an overhead 500V DC supply. This view shows "Oakbank Oil Co. No 1" (Baldwin 20586 of 1902). Both No 1 & No 2 survived until the closure of the line in 1960.

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