Latest Images by Claire M Jordan http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2013-05-24T00:53:07GMT text/html 2011-10-02T00:32:40GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.850407 -3.572471 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627847 West Calder has an interesting layout, with private houses and allotments coming right up to the back of the supermarket - it's not big enough to have any transitional zones. text/html 2011-10-02T00:19:01GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.850859 -3.572329 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627839 View across the central plaza from beside the town clock, looking towards Scotmid. Somewhere behind the shops is a householder who keeps free-ranging peacocks who can sometimes be seen stalking across the plaza, or even going into Scotmid and nicking bread rolls. text/html 2011-10-02T00:13:00GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.850936 -3.573291 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627835 Nobody is ever going to exclaim over West Calder's picturesque beauty, but it's a serviceable village with an interesting roof line. The boarded-up shop front just beyond the silver car used to be a newsagent's, and is now a private house. text/html 2011-10-01T23:54:41GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.885439 -3.516330 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627821 View across the ornamental plaza on Almondvale Boulevard near the Almondvale Centre in Livingston, looking towards the south end of one of the bridges across the River Almond, and the long thin park which runs along the riverbanks. text/html 2011-10-01T23:50:01GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.884900 -3.516308 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627815 Ornamental plaza near the Almondvale Centre in Livingston, at the south end of one of the bridges across the River Almond. text/html 2011-10-01T23:30:01GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.896269 -3.678920 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627793 The small standing stone was erected by the Boy Scouts during some kind of Millennium celebration, but I haven't been able to find out anything about the horseshoe-shaped earthwork. It definitely pre-dates the local housing estate, because it can be seen in aerial photographs taken before the houses were built. Somebody who has lived nearby for sixteen years told me it was there when he moved in. It doesn't seem to be a marker on top of a septic tank and it's too low and too small to be a sheep-fold, yet it's not marked on the OS map as an ancient monument either. Some kind of Victorian folly, possibly? text/html 2011-10-01T23:19:50GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.896604 -3.680694 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627786 View from the footpath towards the new housing estate at Mallace Avenue, Lower Bathville. Before the estate was built this area was a cornfield so the pool is as new as the houses, but very natural-looking and well-established. text/html 2011-10-01T23:10:44GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.900639 -3.641361 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627775 Late 19th or very early 20th C cast-iron fountain donated to Bathgate by the wife of Peter Mclagan, MP for Linlithgowshire (who died in 1900). It originally stood at the top end of George Street, at the crossroads with Hopetoun Street, but was moved to the plaza called The Steelyard at the low end of George Street, presumably because its presence at the crossroads interfered with traffic. text/html 2011-10-01T22:50:53GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.901619 -3.642042 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627742 Close-up of the belltower of St David's church on George Street in Bathgate, showing above the roofs of the shops on King's Street - supplemental to my photograph at [[2627726]]. text/html 2011-10-01T22:45:40GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.901800 -3.641890 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2627726 View across the plaza called The Steelyard in Bathgate, with the spire of St David's church on George Street showing above the roofs of the shops on King's Street. Built in 1904, the church is now used for some commercial purpose. See also close-up shot at [[2627742]]. text/html 2011-09-25T03:47:58GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.848352 -3.578617 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2616318 This is the lane section of Burngrange Court in West Calder, heading towards Burngrange Cottages, with just over half an acre of bat-haunted, wild-growing wood and heath on the right, in the midst of all the houses. text/html 2011-09-25T03:36:43GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.848546 -3.577507 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2616316 This is the cul-de-sac at the east end of Burngrange Court in West Calder. The large tree was cut down a few months later. text/html 2011-09-25T03:25:35GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.852924 -3.572413 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2616314 View down Cleuch Brae (locally pronounced Chuck Brae) in West Calder. text/html 2011-09-25T01:09:03GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.949352 -3.205109 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2616303 Area of ornamental churchyard-garden immediately south of the Parish Church of St Cuthbert. text/html 2011-09-25T00:57:06GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/41256 Claire M Jordan 55.947498 -3.201689 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2616302 Looking south through the tunnel under the bridge where Johnston Terrace crosses over King's Stables Road.