Two more photos taken in Bathgate, West Lothian.

The first is of the Bennie Museum – museum of Bathgate’s history and life housed in a traditional cottage:-

The second is a blue plaque to James ‘Paraffin’ Young, creator of West Lothian’s oil shale industry. (I’ve always found the rust-brown bings left behind by the shale mining in that county to be a strangely attractive feature of the landscape):-

A couple more Art Deco buildings in Bathgate.

This one looks like an ex-Woolworths but is now a Poundland. Typical deco styling:-

Deco touches:-

Bank of Scotland. This may be later but has deco elements, especially the tall window:-

The Pavilion, an ex-cinema, isn’t truly deco as it was built in 1920 but it prefigures the style. Note the Rule of Three in the front windows and door:-

Not content with the Regal Cinema, Bathgate in West Lothian has another striking Art Deco building. It has excellent detailing, picked out in paint.

Corner roofline detail:-

Upper story and roofline:-

Fine Art Deco cinema in Bathgate, West Lothian. Still in use as a cinema.

The “Rule of Three” is at work here in the central windows and their mullions, the lines at either side of the “Regal” sign and on the rooflines:-

From side:-

Railings and steps. Good deco “triangle” drop in each rail’s line:-

Fine Art Deco glass and detailing on the canopy facade:-

Showing alleyway at left side of Cinema (as you look at it.) Rule of three in the sets of windows here?

There’s a good, strong finial above the window in this detail of the frontage:-