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The Fourth Statistical Account of East Lothian
Welcome
About the Fourth Account
Background
Brief biographies of contributors and parish representatives
Foreword by Rosalind Mitchison
Site Contents
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County
Introduction
The County in 1945
People & Population
Parish identity
Population
Geography Environment
The Local Government Administrative Areas: 1975-2000
Climate Change? A Statistical Account of Flowering in East Lothian: 1978-2001
Country Houses
Appendix 1: More Details of Houses
Appendix 2: other Grade A Listed Buildings in East Lothian
Appendix 3: Gardens & Designed Landscapes
Countryside management
The Landscape
Water supply
Belief In The County
Roman Catholic Communities
Church of Scotland
Church of Scotland – Charges and Congregations
Episcopal
The Episcopal Church: Glossary & Summary of Churches, Services and Clergy
Methodism
Methodist ministers 1945 – 2000
Swapping a tractor for a computer
Homes
Local authority housing
The Mass Housing Drive
The Mass Housing Drive – Statistics
The Mass Housing Drive – Case studies
Health
General Practice Overview
General Practice in East Lothian, 1946-1966
Healthcare for the Local Community, 1966-1990
General Practice in East Lothian, 1990-2000
Health in the county
Hospital Services
The Work of a Small Hospital (1969)
East Fortune Hospital & Sanatorium, 1951-1954
ELCAP
The First East Lothian Geriatric Service at East Fortune Hospital
Herdmanflat Hospital and East Lothian Mental Health Services
Nursing reminiscence
Roodlands 1972 – 1991
Roodlands 1975 – 2000
Happy Memories of Roodlands Hospital
Shut the door…in case the germs get out
Overview of health services
Public health
The hospitals
Social Care
Promoting social welfare
Learning Disability
The management challenge
Joint planning: the National Agenda
Making it happen
Conclusion references & appendices
Time line of major events: 1969-1998
Coalfield Welfare
CISWO
Education
Education Overview
New demands
The educational system in place to the mid-1960s
Implementing change
Moving towards the comprehensive system
Pressures at primary level
Post 1996
Acknowledgements
Summary of secondary schools
School rolls 1980 – 2000
Crime
Crime and policing
Changes on the ground
Changing crime patterns
Concluding thoughts
Leisure
For Home And Country
SWRI office bearers
Notes on Federation Reports, 1945 – 2000
For Home And Country: the Scottish Women’s Rural Institute in East Lothian
Economy
Chronology of Industrial and Economic Development: 1945-2000
Overview of Economic Development
Review of manufacturing industries
The Co-operative Society in the County
The Co-operative Society – working condiditons
Tourism
East Lothian Tourist Board: an insight 1980s-1994
Coal Industry – An overview
Period of major mining development
Recent mining history
Aftermath
Appendices
From March to March: The Miners’ Strike of 1984 – 1985
The Start of the Divisions
The Credibility Gap
The Breaking of Consensus Between Labour and Capital
Picketing: the Failed Strategy
Postscript Addendum & References
Women against pit closures
Opencast coal extraction to 2000
Transport
Railways
The story of the A1 in the county
The Arts
An Overview Of Music
Brass & pipe bands
Concluding notes and references
Festivals
Present choirs
Art & artists
Crafts & craftspeople
The Land
The Countryside Premium Scheme (Scotland), 1997-2000
Farming
Arable & mixed farming
Dairy & other farms
Labour & rents
Machinery & markets
Market gardening
Upland farming
Foot & Mouth
The Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) in East Lothian: 1983-2000
Forestry
Migrant & seasonal workers
Father Michael Cassidy: The Potato Priest
Government & Politics
County | Politics | Local government
National politics in East Lothian
In memory of John P Mackintosh
East Lothian politics: a personal perspective
Musselburgh politics: a personal view
Recollections of my time as MP for East Lothian
The Lieutenancy
The Armed Associated Services
The Civil Defence Corps: 1949-1968
Military East Lothian
The armed services in the County
The TA – a changing role in a changing world
Reorganisation, again and again
Royal Artillery
The cavalry
Reminiscence by Lt Colonel SA Bunyan TD DL
The infantry
The 1st Battalion
Reminiscence by Major R I Elder TD
Cadet Force organisations
Revisiting The Past
East Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists’ Society: a brief history
Haddington House
Protecting ancient monuments
The Archaeology Of East Lothian
Aerial photography
Changing prehistoric settlement: the example of St Germains, Tranent
Iron Age East Lothian
Hillforts: the example of Broxmouth, Dunbar
Development & archaeology: the example of the A1 dualling
Early historic settlements: the example of Castle Park, Dunbar
Early Christianity and the long-cist cemeteries of East Lothian
Conclusion and references
Traprain Law
Statistics
Miscellaneous population statistics
1931-2001: Population by Parish
1931-1991: Population by burgh
Additional information
Parish
Aberlady
Aberlady | Belief
Aberlady | Economy
Aberlady | Education
Aberlady | Environment
Aberlady | Further reading & references
Aberlady | Healthcare
Aberlady | Homes
Aberlady | Leisure
Aberlady | Local Government
Aberlady | Miscellany
Aberlady | Police
Aberlady | Population
Aberlady | Transport
Aberlady | Church Minutes
Aberlady | Aberlady Saturday Club
Athelstaneford
Athelstaneford | Belief
Athelstaneford | Notes on East Fortune Hospital
Athelstaneford | Economy
Athelstaneford | Education
Athelstaneford | Further reading & references
Athelstaneford | Homes
Athelstaneford | Population
Athelstaneford | Townscapes, Buildings & Landscapes of Distinction
Athelstaneford | Transport
Bolton
Bolton | Belief
Bolton | Economy
Bolton | Education
Bolton | Environment
Bolton | Further reading & references
Bolton | Homes
Bolton | Miscellany
Bolton | Population
Bolton | Transport & Leisure
Cockenzie & Port Seton
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Belief
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Economy
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Education
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Environment
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Further reading & references
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Healthcare
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Homes
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Leisure
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Miscellany
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Population
Cockenzie & Port Seton | Revisiting the past
Dirleton
Dirleton | Belief
Dirleton | Economy
Dirleton | Education
Dirleton | Environment
Dirleton | Farming in the parish of Dirleton 1945-2000
Dirleton | Fidra
Dirleton | Fifty years at Greywalls
Dirleton | Further reading & references
Dirleton | Golf in the parish of Dirleton 1945-2000
Dirleton | Healthcare
Dirleton | Homes
Dirleton | Leisure
Dirleton | Local Government
Dirleton | Miscellany
Dirleton | Police
Dirleton | Population
Dirleton | Transport
Dunbar
Dunbar | Belief
Dunbar | Economy
Dunbar | Education
Dunbar | Emergency services
Dunbar | Environment
Dunbar | Further reading & references
Dunbar | Healthcare
Dunbar | Homes
Dunbar | Leisure
Dunbar | Local Government 1945-2000
Dunbar | Local Government
Dunbar | Miscellany
Dunbar | Poaching in and around Dunbar
Dunbar | Population
Dunbar | Retail
Dunbar | Revisiting the past
Dunbar | Transport
Dunbar | Vi Marshall (nee Souness) talks about East Barns in the early 1950s
Garvald
Garvald | Belief
Garvald | Economy
Garvald | Education
Garvald | Environment
Garvald | Further reading & references
Garvald | Healthcare
Garvald | Homes
Garvald | Leisure
Garvald | Miscellany
Garvald | Population
Garvald | Transport
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Belief
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Economy
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Education
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Environment
Gladsmuir excluding Longniddry | Further reading & references
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Healthcare
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Homes
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Leisure
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Miscellany
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Police
Gladsmuir Excluding Longniddry | Population
Gladsmuir excluding Longniddry | Transport
Gladsmuir Longniddry
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Belief
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Economy
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Education
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Environment
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Further reading & references
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Gordon Morrison – interview transcript
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Grieve’s diary, Longniddry Farm
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Healthcare
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Homes
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Leisure
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Local Government
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Miscellany
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Police
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Population
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Revisiting the past
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Transport
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Archie Mathieson – interview transcript
Gladsmuir Longniddry | Moray Welsh
Haddington
Haddington | Belief
Haddington | Economy
Haddington | Education
Haddington | Environment
Haddington | Further reading & references
Haddington | Healthcare
Haddington | Homes
Haddington | Leisure
Haddington | Letham Mains Farm – smallholdings
Haddington | Early days with Scottish Agricultural Industries Ltd
Haddington | Miscellany
Haddington | Police
Haddington | Population
Haddington | The East Lothian Courier
Haddington | Transport
Humbie
Humbie | Belief
Humbie | Economy
Humbie | Education
Humbie | Environment
Humbie | Further reading & references
Humbie | Homes
Humbie | Leisure
Humbie | Local Government
Humbie | Miscellany
Humbie | Population
Humbie | Transport
Innerwick
Innerwick | Belief
Innerwick | Farm records – Easter Meikle Pinkerton
Innerwick | Economy
Innerwick | Education
Innerwick | Environment
Innerwick | Further reading & references
Innerwick | Healthcare
Innerwick | Homes
Innerwick | Land ownership: extracted from the valuation roll for Innerwick, 1945
Innerwick | Leisure
Innerwick | Local Government
Innerwick | Miscellany
Innerwick | Population
Innerwick | Revisiting the past
Innerwick | Torness Power Station – facts and benefits – provided by British Energy
Innerwick | Transport
Inveresk
Inveresk | Belief
Inveresk | Economy
Inveresk | Education
Inveresk | Environment
Inveresk | Further reading & references
Inveresk | Healthcare
Inveresk | Homes
Inveresk | Leisure
Inveresk | Miscellany
Inveresk | Police
Inveresk | Population
Inveresk | Revisiting the past
Inveresk | Transport
Inveresk Musselburgh
Inveresk Musselburgh | Belief
Inveresk Musselburgh | Economy
Inveresk Musselburgh | Education
Inveresk Musselburgh | Environment
Inveresk Musselburgh | Further reading & references
Inveresk Musselburgh | Healthcare
Inveresk Musselburgh | Homes
Inveresk Musselburgh | Leisure
Inveresk Musselburgh | Local Government
Inveresk Musselburgh | Miscellany
Inveresk Musselburgh | Musselburgh Grammar School – Log Book Summary: 1945-72
Inveresk Musselburgh | Police
Inveresk Musselburgh | Population
Inveresk Musselburgh | Revisiting the past
Inveresk Musselburgh | Townscapes, Buildings & Landscapes of Distinction: Summary
Inveresk Musselburgh | Transport
Morham
Morham | Belief
Morham | Economy
Morham | Education
Morham | Environment
Morham | Further reading & references
Morham | Homes
Morham | Leisure
Morham | Miscellany
Morham | Population
Morham | Transport & police
North Berwick
North Berwick | Belief
North Berwick | Coastguard & Lifeboat
North Berwick | Economy
North Berwick | Education
North Berwick | Environment
North Berwick | Fire service
North Berwick | Further reading & references
North Berwick | Healthcare
North Berwick | Homes
North Berwick | Leisure
North Berwick | Local Government
North Berwick | Miscellany
North Berwick | Police
North Berwick | Population
North Berwick | Revisiting the past
North Berwick | Transport
Oldhamstocks
Oldhamstocks | Belief
Oldhamstocks | Economy
Oldhamstocks | Education
Oldhamstocks | Environment
Oldhamstocks | Further reading & references
Oldhamstocks | Healthcare
Oldhamstocks | Helen Patrick
Oldhamstocks | Homes
Oldhamstocks | Interview with Mrs Jean Yule
Oldhamstocks | Leisure
Oldhamstocks | Local Government
Oldhamstocks | Population
Oldhamstocks | Transport & police
Ormiston
Ormiston | Belief
Ormiston | Economy
Ormiston | Education
Ormiston | Environment
Ormiston | Further reading & references
Ormiston | Homes
Ormiston | Leisure
Ormiston | Population
Ormiston | Transport & police
Pencaitland
Pencaitland | Belief
Pencaitland | Economy
Pencaitland | Education
Pencaitland | Environment
Pencaitland | Further reading & references
Pencaitland | Healthcare
Pencaitland | Homes
Pencaitland | Leisure
Pencaitland | Local Government
Pencaitland | Miscellany
Pencaitland | Police
Pencaitland | Population
Pencaitland | Revisiting the past
Pencaitland | Transport
Pencaitland | Two interviews of Janet Bassett by Liz Strachan and Jan Bundy Summer 2001
Prestonkirk
Prestonkirk | Belief
Prestonkirk | Economy
Prestonkirk | Education
Prestonkirk | Environment
Prestonkirk | Further reading & references
Prestonkirk | Healthcare
Prestonkirk | Homes
Prestonkirk | Leisure
Prestonkirk | Local Government
Prestonkirk | Police
Prestonkirk | Population
Prestonkirk | Revisiting the past
Prestonkirk | Transport
Prestonpans
Prestonpans | Belief
Prestonpans | Economy
Prestonpans | Education
Prestonpans | Environment
Prestonpans | Further reading & references
Prestonpans | Healthcare
Prestonpans | Homes
Prestonpans | Leisure
Prestonpans | Miscellany
Prestonpans | Population
Prestonpans | Revisiting the past
Prestonpans | Transport
Saltoun
Saltoun | Belief
Saltoun | Christine Gillies
Saltoun | Economy
Saltoun | Education
Saltoun | Environment
Saltoun | Further reading & references
Saltoun | Healthcare
Saltoun | Homes
Saltoun | Jean Sandilands
Saltoun | Leisure
Saltoun | Local Government
Saltoun | Margaret McCormack
Saltoun | Miscellany
Saltoun | Nan Louden
Saltoun | Police
Saltoun | Population
Saltoun | Revisiting the past
Saltoun | Transport
Saltoun | Fletcher of Saltoun Annual Lecture
Spott
Spott | Belief
Spott | Catherine Alison McLeod on the McLeods at Spott, early 20th century
Spott | Economy
Spott | Education
Spott | Environment
Spott | Further reading & references
Spott | Healthcare
Spott | Homes
Spott | Ian Sands
Spott | James Miller (b 1926)
Spott | Leisure
Spott | Local Government
Spott | Miscellany
Spott | Molly Lafferty nee Tear (b 1927)
Spott | Mr D. Robertson, Easter and Wester Broomhouse, pre 1945
Spott | Population
Spott | Revisiting the past
Spott | Transport & police
Stenton
Stenton | Adam Bathgate – odd boy, ploughman, shepherd and beekeeper
Stenton | Agriculture
Stenton | Belief
Stenton | Bielgrange from the forties to the nineties
Stenton | Economy
Stenton | Education
Stenton | Educational Facilities and Experiences in Stenton School 1945-2000
Stenton | Environment
Stenton | Farming and Life in the Lammermuir Hills in the 1950s
Stenton | Further reading & references
Stenton | Healthcare
Stenton | Homes
Stenton | Lawrence Docker, gamekeeper
Stenton | Leisure
Stenton | Local Government
Stenton | Millknowe
Stenton | Miscellany
Stenton | Pitcox – change over time 1945 – 2000
Stenton | Population
Stenton | Transport & police
Tranent
Tranent | Belief
Tranent | Economy
Tranent | Education
Tranent | Elphinstone
Tranent | Environment
Tranent | Further reading & references
Tranent | Healthcare
Tranent | Homes & settlements
Tranent | Leisure
Tranent | Local Government
Tranent | Population
Tranent | Spirit of time past: recollections of Ian Campbell (c1937 on)
Tranent | Transport
Whitekirk & Tyninghame
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Belief
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Economy
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Education
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Environment
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Further reading & references
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Healthcare
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Homes
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Leisure
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Miscellany
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Population
Whitekirk & Tyninghame | Transport
Whittingehame
Whittingehame | Belief
Whittingehame | Economy
Whittingehame | Education
Whittingehame | Environment
Whittingehame | Further reading & references
Whittingehame | Homes
Whittingehame | Leisure
Whittingehame | Local Government
Whittingehame | Population
Whittingehame | Revisiting the past
Whittingehame | The lairds of Whittingehame since 1945
Whittingehame | Transport & police
Yester
Yester | Belief
Yester | Economy
Yester | Education
Yester | Environment
Yester | Further reading & references
Yester | Healthcare
Yester | Homes
Yester | Leisure
Yester | Local Government
Yester | Miscellany
Yester | Police
Yester | Population
Yester | Revisiting the past
Yester | Transport
Growing Up
Alex Smeed (1979) 1980s & 1990s in Dunbar
Alison Cowe (nee Ford, 1946) – Gullane 1950s
Arnott Craigs (1935) – Macmerry and then golf at Gullane, 1950s
Benjamin Tindall ARIAS RIBA FSA (Scot) (1953) – Haddington, and encounters with builders, 1950s
Catherine Walker Acton (nee Foggo 1957) – East Barns, Dunbar, 1960s-1973
Christina D. Anderson (nee Kerr, 1931) – Guides & Brownies, Belhaven 1948
Cynthia Stephens (nee Dale, 1953) – schooldays at Miss Duncan’s Academy, Belhaven, 1957-1962
Dunbar Sailing Club
Francis Ogilvy (1969) – Winton House Pencaitland, 1970s-1980s
Giles Weaver (1946) – Greywalls, Gullane 1950s
Gordon Easingwood (1948) – Dunbar 1950s and early 1960s
Ian Gardner (1969 – Dunbar, 1970s)
Jacqui Burke (1964) – Dunbar 1970s
James Douglas-Hamilton (1941) – rescue at North Berwick, late 1940s
Jane Murray (nee Bunyan, 1964) – Dunbar 1970s & 1980s, schooldays and her experiences of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
Janet Helen Hunt (nee Forrest, 1946) – North Berwick 1950s & 1960s, and family memories of Lowe’s farms in Musselburgh & Longniddry
Jean McEwan (nee Roy, 1943) – a peripatetic childhood on farms all over East Lothian in the 1940s
John B. Halliday (1943) Stenton, late 1940s-1950s
John Bellany CBE, RA (1942) – Idyllic childhood in Port Seton
John Wood (1937) – Haddington 1940s & 1950s
Kenneth Stevenson (1949) – Aberlady, then East Linton 1950s
Kingston School from the log book
Lorraine Weselby (1961) – long hot summer holidays in Dunbar late 1960s, early 1970s
Mark Iain Lees (1973) – Dunbar 1970s & 1980s
Martin Dudgeon (1953) – Memories of Holt School, Whittingehame House c1966-70
Pat O’Brien (1941) – Prestonpans 1940s and 50s
Pauline Jaffray (1956) – Thornton Glen, Innerwick
Pauline Smeed (nee Folkarde, 1957) – Dunbar in the early 1960s
Peter Ford (1957) – Musselburgh, 1960s
Recollections of Sister Bernard
Robert Gray (1954) – Morham, and the joys of Cranshaws gob stoppers, 1960s & 1970s
Ross Drummond
Some Reminiscences of a Country School Headmaster
Street games from 1945
Susan Deacon (1964) – Inveresk Village, Musselburgh 1960s & 1970s
Thomas Knox Anderson (1927) – Dunbar 1930s-date late 1940s
Victoria Fletcher (1942) – Yester House, Gifford during war time and just after
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National Archives of Scotland, 25 October 1962,
Discontinuance of Rural Schools
, ED 48/1650
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