Guthrie Hutton Knihy

Based on the extensive collection of old photographs and postcards gathered over the years by Shetland native Douglas Smith this beautifully presented book provides fascinating insight into the lives of Shetlanders from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries. As is usual in a fishing and maritime community the men folk were typically absent for long periods of time at sea and the role of women was vital to the life of the islands. They are pictured here performing task as varied as gutting the herring catch knitting the complex Fair Isle patterns and gossamer thin shawls for which the islands are famous cutting and drying peat for fuel shelling bait for the fishermen and burning seaweed for Kelp to supply chemical manufacturers. The wartime period 1939 to 1945 and the islands crucial role as a lifeline to occupied Norway via the Shetland Bus is detailed and there are some fine examples of the unique and mysterious Brochs.

Believe it or not, this area of Glasgow took its name from one Mary Hill, who granted land from her Gairbraid Estate for the building of a village on the condition that it bore her name. The Forth and Clyde Canal prompted Maryhill's development, and the new waterway attracted boat-building, saw-milling and other industries such as ironfounding to its banks. Pictures of the mills on the Kelvin, along with the area's former mansions, such as Bonville and Garscube House, show a surprisingly rural-looking Maryhill, although there are also plenty of photos of a bustling Maryhill Road lined with trams and packed with shops. Other pictures include a vintage Partick Thistle line-up (along with two other less well-known local football teams), the Bryant and May factory, the barracks, station, loads of canalside pictures, and the New Star and Roxy cinemas.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Kirkintilloch found itself at the centre of a transport network that was unrivalled in Scotland. The cutting of the Forth & Clyde Canal and the subsequent building of the Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway meant that it became a transport hub that was ideally situated to trade with Scotland's cities as well as exploiting its own local mineral reserves. It flourished with mining and iron-founding just two of the industries that generated employment and large amounts of revenue. Local businesses such as Mavor & Coulson and the Star Foundry illustrate Kirky's industrial past while the story of Lanfine and Broomhill homes recalls another local employer and important presence in the district.

This is Guthrie Hutton's second book on Maryhill and illustrates the well-loved neighbourhood (including Queen's Cross and extending south as far as St George's Cross) with a new selection of period photographs and completely new captions. As well as Victorian and Edwardian views, there are several evocative pictures taken by Maryhill local Jim Leggett between the 1950s and 1970s. With the barracks, the Forth & Clyde Canal, an extensive railway network and a variety of industries jostling for space alongside streets of tenements, Maryhill has a varied and interesting history, many aspects of which are touched on here.

A history of the large and small pits and mines in the County of Fife. The book has 112 pages of photographs but is also accompanied by detailed descriptions to the background surrounding the inclusion of each photograph.

A perceptive look at the history and scenery of this geologically significant and exceptionally photogenic area of the north west Highlands.

The small and largely agricultural county of Kinross-shire has always enjoyed good communication links, and its market towns of Kinross and Milnathort provided coaching inns on the main Queensferry to Perth road in the days of the stagecoaches. The county has a distinguished architectural heritage, benefiting from the patronage of the Adam family who owned Blaircrambeth (later Blairadam) Estate, while also boasting both Loch Leven Castle and the impressive Kinross House, the latter designed by Sir William Bruce. As well as the two main towns, other locations illustrated include: Kinross Junction Station, Balado, Balgedie, Easter Balgedie, Kinnesswood, Scotlandwell, Blairadam Station, Cleish, Blairingone, Powmill, Rumbling Bridge (and Station), Crook of Devon, Carnbo, Tillyrie and Middleton.

Old Leith takes the reader on a magnificent stroll via Easter Road Duke Street Great Junction Street Restalrig Road Albany Street Ferry Road George Street Kirkgate Commercial Street and Newhaven Road. The Bay Horse pub is featured as is the Brig o' Leith and the so-called house of Mary of Guise. Local businesses featured include W. Graham-Yooll oil merchants etcetera and Beruldsen's outfitters. The story of the docks and their development is told including mention of the Sirius the most famous ship built at Leith. Land-locked methods of transport such as Leith's electric and horse-drawn trams are also covered. Other interesting photographs include the wreck of the Leith Flower Show in 1905 and Trinity Chain Pier. Newhaven fishing village appears with photographs of fishwives Newhaven Silver Band and Starbank Park.

A fine selection of photographs show Falkirk at its early twentieth century best with trams horse-drawn carriages the gleaming new bus station and some of the old closes and wynds all illustrated. Elsewhere you'll find the Regal cinema Grahamston station the famous Bainsford Bridge over the canal and pictures of the Carron Ironworks and Mungal Foundry. There are great shots of the town's giant ice-rink (long ago closed) and the BBC's Westerglen radio transmitter facilities plus a selection of pictures of Camelon. In 2002 the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals were reopened and are now connected to each other by the Falkirk Wheel an incredible rotating boat lift. Its construction and design is covered fully in another of Stenlakes titles I stock by Guthrie Hutton - Scotland's Millennium Canals.