Local Publications

Sale of local publications

We have a range of publications, written by local people, about the history of our local area. These are on sale in our libraries and museum. They combine personal reflections with detailed historical knowledge, making them great gifts or souvenirs for anyone interested in the history of the area.

Buy a copy at your local library or contact us archives@eastdunbarton.gov.uk to arrange for a title to be posted to you (additional postage and packaging fees will apply).

 

Local Areas

Book Cover

Price

Publication

                                      Agricultural Improvements in Strathkelvin book cover

£1.00

Dorothy E. McGuire,

Agricultural Improvements in Strathkelvin

                                     Bishopbriggs The Golden Years book club

£3.00

Jessie and Willie Ure,

Bishopbriggs: The Golden Years (1987)

                                     Years of growth book cover

 £3.00

Willie Ure,

Bishopbriggs: the Years of Growth (1989)

                                    A. I. Bowman, The Gipsy o’ Kirky: SS Gipsy Queen (1987) book cover £1.00

A. I. Bowman,

The Gipsy o’ Kirky: SS Gipsy Queen (1987)

                                    Bridgend a Scottish colliery village book cover

£3.00

Strathkelvin Mining Project Team,

Bridgend: a Scottish Colliery Village (1984)

                              Campsie Glen picture album book cover

£2.50

 

Loretta Mulholland,

Campsie Glen Picture Album (1988)

                                    Catholic Church in Strathkelvin book cover

£2.50

Cecilia McDaid,

Catholic Church in Strathkelvin (1996)

                                    Chryston a North Lanarkshire

£2.00

Chryston: a North Lanarkshire village

                                    fire and clay book cover

£1.00

G. Quail,

Garnkirk Fire and Clay

                               Kincaids of that Ilk book cover

£0.50

Kincaids of that Ilk

                                     Kirkintilloch life and times

£6.00

Sue Selwyn and Don Martin,

Kirkintilloch Life and Times (1994)

                                     John Horne Kirkintillock

£3.50

John Horne,

Kirkintilloch

                                     Milton of campsie people and places book cover

£3.50

 

James Lindsay,

Milton of Campsie: People and Places

                                     Remains to be seen book cover

£3.00

Sheena V. Peters,

Remains to be Seen:
A Brief History of Bearsden and Milngavie
(2nd ed., 1994)

                                     The story of Baldernock book cover

£3.00

Elizabeth Robertson and Willie Ure,

Story of Baldernock (1991)

                                     The story of Bishopbriggs book cover

£3.00

J. A. Russell,

Story of Bishopbriggs (1989)

                                     The Story of Chryston book cover

£2.00

Neil Kidd,

The Story of Chryston (1993)

                                     The story of Lenzie

£3.00

Don Martin,

The Story of Lenzie (1989)

                                     The story of Stepps book cover

£2.00

Freda Bunyan and Neil Kidd,

The Story of Stepps (1996)

                                     The story of Twechar book cover

£3.00

Iain M. Smith,

The Story of Twechar (1994)

                                    Auchinairn and bishopbriggs at wat book cover

£1.80

Bill Findlay,

Auchinairn and Bishopbriggs at War (1995)

                                   Thomas Muir of Huntershill book cover

£3.99

Michael Donnelly,

Thomas Muir of Huntershill

                              the Scottish girl who married the founder of Japanese Whiskey  book cover

£3.99

Rita: The Scottish girl who married the founder of Japanese whisky

 

Transport

Book Cover

Price

Publication

                                      The Bennie Railplane book cover

£3.50

William B. Black,

The Bennie Railplane

 

                                     Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook book cover

£2.00

Don Martin and A. A. Maclean,

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (1992)

 

                                       For to do the Country Good: The Working Horse in West Central Scotland (1987) book cover

£1.50

David Roberts,

For to do the Country Good: The Working Horse in West Central Scotland (1987)

 

                                       Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook book cover

£2.50

Forth and Clyde Canal Society,

Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook (3rd revised ed., 2001)

 

                                       The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway book cover

£1.00

Don Martin,

The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway (1981)  

 

                                       The Monkland and Kirkintilloch and Associated Railways book cover

£5.00

Don Martin,

The Monkland and Kirkintilloch and Associated Railways (1995)

 

                                       Swifts and Queens: Passenger Transport on the Forth and Clyde Canal book cover

£2.50

A. I. Bowman,

Swifts and Queens: Passenger Transport on the Forth and Clyde Canal (1984)

 

 

 

Local Maps

Book Cover

Price

Publication

                                     Bishopbriggs Street Map (including Lennoxtown and Torrance, 2005) map cover

£1.50

Bishopbriggs Street Map (including Lennoxtown and Torrance, 2005)

 

                                     Old OS Map of Lenzie map cover

£1.00

Old OS Map of Lenzie (1897)