Take a trip down memory lane in Bo'ness, Linlithgow and South Queensferry
THIS week's Peep at the past takes a look at Queensferry on Ferry Fair Day in 1947.
The event was the first Ferry Fair to be staged in seven years after it was suspended during the Second World War.
Submitted by Lyla Martin, who is the Gracious Lady at this year's Ferry Fair, it features a young Lyla Anderson as a trainbearer behind Queen Lena Berry.
Also included in the photograph is herald Charles Waugh, fellow train bearer John Watson, ladies in waiting, Cora McLaughlan and Betty Easton (nee Hardie) and flower girls, Margaret Brown and Ruth Davidson.
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25 years ago
As part of the Edinburgh Festival Link, locals in Linlithgow were looking forward to a re-enactment of the 1650 Civil War Engagement staged around the palace by the English Civil War Society. Also shown was an example of a 17th century football match and a mock execution along with stalls, displays of arts and crafts and other entertainers.
Workers at Bo'ness Iron Company enjoyed a visit to Edinburgh Castle this week to see a replica cannon they made for the castle. Around 60 employees made the trip after the company was awarded a 27,000 contract to supply 14 19th century replica cannons.
Bo'ness man Graham Livingston has reached the top flight of the Royal Air Force. An air vice marshall, he has also been appointed principal medical officer of the RAF Support Command.
The junior football season was set to get underway with a clash between Bo'ness and Linlithgow Rose. An East Region select which played Scotland junior select at Prestonfield lost out by two goals to nil. Among the local interest in the east region team were Andy Dunleavie, Lex Shields, Harry Meikle and Ian McLeod.
50 years ago
The SSEB announced that Scotland's biggest power station, which was expected to cost in the region of 1 million would be sited somewhere in the Lothians. The site had not yet been chosen, however board representatives of the board had been examining sites in between Grangemouth and North Berwick.
People in Linlithgow were entertained by an impromptu concert by a group of around 40 Germans at The Cross.
The first block of four houses were demolished in Queensferry in order to make way for the new road bridge.
Door to door fundraising raised 76 in the days leading up to the Winchburgh Gala Day. Bands which performed at the gala included Winchburgh Public Band and the Bo'ness and Carriden Silver Band.
With the football season about to start, there were some new faces at Prestonfield and Newtown Park. The Rose had signed John Bennett while the BUs snapped up Peter Campbell, Colin McArthur, Robert Veitch and Adam Connor.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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