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Non-Deco Bathgate

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:-

Bennie Museum, Bathgate

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):-

Plaque to Paraffin Young, Bathgate

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