IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Burnside Lane, WEST CALDER, EH55 8TD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Burnside Lane, EH55 8TD by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (18 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Polbeth Road
Houses probably dating from late 1950's early 1960's.
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 12 Oct 2010
0.06 miles
2
West Calder Burn
A fallen tree forms an arch over the burn
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 12 Oct 2010
0.10 miles
3
Walled section of West Calder Burn
It isn't that obvious why it was decided that there was the need to build these two massive retaining walls. They are definitely here because, just South of the road bridge - which has been present in some shape or form for at least 200 years - there used to be a railway line serving two or more shale mines crossing the burn where the walls now sit.
Old OS maps show that the railway didn't cross the water via an actual bridge however; the water disappears from the maps for a short but significant length, indicating that a culvert was built and earth piled on top to facilitate a wide crossing and to keep the track horizontal. Considering the amount of earth that must have had to be taken away to get to the culvert it seems odd that they didn't just take the final loads away from the banks to save building the wall. Or just leave the whole thing in place - a wide crossing over a culvert built for exactly the same reasons is still in place a few hundred yards upstream. The crossing was still in place in the 1960s (though it was then a track as opposed to a railway), so there are probably still people alive who did the work - I'll have to ask about...
Image: © Ian Dodds
Taken: 18 Dec 2022
0.11 miles
4
Road narrows
On bridge over West Calder Burn
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 12 Oct 2010
0.11 miles
5
St Mary's RC Primary School
In Polbeth.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 29 Jul 2015
0.11 miles
6
Polbeth Crescent
The setting sun gives a rosy glow to houses at the end of Polbeth Crescent.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 7 Jan 2018
0.11 miles
7
Welcome to Polbeth Clinic
An NHS Lothian facility, now for sale and boarded up.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 29 Jul 2015
0.14 miles
8
Polbeth from the air
Polbeth Industrial Estate in the centre, West Calder High School in the top right corner.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 13 Aug 2019
0.14 miles
9
West Calder Fire Station
On Polbeth Road, Polbeth.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 29 Jul 2015
0.15 miles
10
Polbeth
Largish village between West Calder and Livingston. Has uniform blocks of substantial housing. The gas board , or whatever daft name ending in a "a" they are currently using, are in town.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 10 Dec 2005
0.15 miles