Copy of postcard showing general view of shale oil works at Oakbank, with group of children by railtracks. Insc. "Oakbank, Oilworks".
SC 358464
Description Copy of postcard showing general view of shale oil works at Oakbank, with group of children by railtracks. Insc. "Oakbank, Oilworks".
Catalogue Number SC 358464
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 62298
Scope and Content 1930s view of village and shale-bing, Oakbank, West Lothian Oakbank shale-oil works was founded in the mid-19th century. With its workers housing, it made up an oil-works community of a kind common in late 19th-century West Lothian. Oakbank Oil Works / Industrial / Chemicals; Shale-Oil / Shale-Oil Works / DIGITAL IMAGES The process for producing oil by heating shale was developed in the 1860s by James Young. It was an adaptation of an earlier method for extracting oil from bituminous or 'cannel' coal, patented by Young in 1850. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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