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Old Photographs

Below is a list of the old photographs we have managed to source with some brief information. If you click on the title a new window will open and the image will load. Depending on the speed of your connection most should load in about 20 seconds or so (56k); some may take a little longer. Once the window opens you will have the option to view the next photo or close it.

View of Ecclesmachan from the south.
Taken circa 1900. Showing the church, the recently built bridge - new section of road, the smiddy and the schoolhouse.

Inside the church in 1909.
Taken around 1909, just after major alterations. This picture appears by permission of West Lothian History and Amenity Society.

View of Ecclesmachan Manse.
Taken circa 1920. Shows the rear of the house (north and east) and the well kept gardens. The child in the picture is probably the minister's (either Rev. A. Tulloch or Rev. R. Pinkerton) daughter.

View of the church.
Taken circa 1970. Shows the south and west sides, the two Norman style arched doorways and a sun-dial (bearing the motto "Carpe Diem" - meaning "Seize the Day") built in a panel on the buttress.

View #1 of Lampinsdub.
Taken circa 1961. Shows a front view of the house known as "Lampinsdub" which is situated about a mile east of Threemiletown and which until the local authority boundaries were amended in the fifties, was in the Parish of Ecclesmachan. This picture appears by permission of Alan Scott & Brian Frater.

View #2 of Lampinsdub.
Also taken circa 1961. Shows a front and side view of the house. This picture appears by permission of Alan Scott & Brian Frater.