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Local History Library Events

 

 

 

West Lothian Local History Library has moved to Linlithgow.  Our new address is County Buildings, High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7EZ.   For more information, phone Sybil Cavanagh on 01506 282491. 

 

West Lothian's Hidden Literary Connections

Learn more about Scotland's authors by discovering West Lothian's Hidden Literary Connections.  West Lothian Council is organising a series of special events highlighting the work of a prestigious author who has a little known connection with West Lothian.  The events are free, but you must register to reserve a place.

 

 

Friday 27 January, 1.15pm, Bathgate Partnership Centre

Prof. Gerard Carruthers of Glasgow University will speak about Robert Burns and Highland Mary.  (The restored statue of Burns and Highland Mary was unveiled in the Partnership Centre garden on 25 January.)

 

To book a place at any of these, phone 01506 282491, or email localhistory@westlothian.gov.uk.

  

Bathgate Once More

A new exhibition charting the story of Bathgate's truck and tractor workers opens in the town's Bennie Museum on Thursday 24 November 2011.  The exhibition tells the whole story, from the coming of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) factory to Bathgate in 1961, to its closure on 27 June 1986, based on first hand accounts of some of the thousands of people who worked there.

 

The Bathgate Once More exhibition opens on 24 November. 

Opening hours: Thursdays to Saturdays, 11am - 3.30pm (until the end of February 2012)

Location: the Bennie Museum, 9-11 Mansefield Street, Bathgate, West Lothian, EH48 4HU.

 

Cholera!

A new booklet has been published by West Lothian Local History Library  on the cholera outbreaks in West Lothian.  Three outbreaks of this horrible disease affected West Lothian's towns and villages in the mid 19th century.  What was espeically frightening was its inexorable spread, and the speed with which it killed: a person might be in perfect health at daybreak and dead by nightfall.

 

Eyewitness accounts and memories of the disease as it affected Bathgate, Linlithgow, Kirkliston, Broxburn, and other local communities are combined in this fascinating booklet.  It is available, priced £1.20 from the Local History Library in County Buildings, Linlithgow, and all branch libraries.

 

For more information, phone 01506 282491, or email sybil.cavanagh@westlothian.gov.uk.

 

 

West Lothian Family History Society

Ordinary meetings are held in the West Lothian Local History Library at County Buildings, Linlithgow on the first Tuesday evening of the month, 7pm-9pm.  If there is a speaker, the meetings are held in Blackburn Community Centre, 7pm-9pm.  For further details, see the Society's website (new window) .

   

 

updated 8/01/12