SPW027085 SCOTLAND (1929). Linlithgow, general view, showing Linlithgow Palace, St Michael's Church and Loch. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.

Huts for mixing explosives. These were associated with the Nobel explosives factory. Each hut was staffed by one employee who mixed the explosives by hand. The idea was that if one of them had an accident, it was confined to a single site. The explosive was used largely for making fuses.

St Michael,s R.C Church.

St Joseph,s R.C Primary school ,Linlithgow.

Former Union Canal Inn

The "Peelie's" house where the peel keeper lived.

Strawberry Bank

The Vennel

White's joinery workshop.

Learmonth Gardens

Houses along the High Port

Cattle yards. Cattle would be collected here before being loaded on to cattle trucks at the station yard.

Greenbank House

Mouth of Bell's Burn

St Michael's Lane

Harbour

Boghall army camp

Bonnytoun Terrace aka "Doon the Lowport"

Bonded warehouses for St Magdalene's distillery

Laetare tennis courts

The Bow Butts (used for archery practice)

St Magdalene Distillery

Another train with the engine and first few carriage slightly obscured by the ever present exhaust of a steam locomotive, locomotives that did much to add to pollution of the atmosphere, especially in urban areas. (Notes that engines are steam engines may seem rather superfluous in 1929! What other sorts of engines were they? Just the occasional petrol or diesel shunter.)

Steam locomotive at the head of a passenger train

High Street

Union Road

Dovecot

United Free Church

Union Canal

Union Canal

Academy

Gas works

Railway station

Union Canal

Looks like a line-up of SMT (Scottish Motor Traction) buses in the main street at what was known as the bus stance. As they are pointing westwards it is likely that they were going to places such as Bo'ness, Falkirk and Stirling