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'Pumpherston Golf Course doesn’t look it but here was the beating heart of West Lothian’s shale oil. For over 100 years heavy industry, mining shale, extracting oil in retorts, refining the oil, making bricks, producing fertiliser and acids and eventually making detergents, dominated. Pumpherston was central to the industry and where it lived the longest.'
'Pumpherston Golf Course doesn’t look it but here was the beating heart of West Lothian’s shale oil. For over 100 years heavy industry, mining shale, extracting oil in retorts, refining the oil, making bricks, producing fertiliser and acids and eventually making detergents, dominated. Pumpherston was central to the industry and where it lived the longest.'
Source: https://shaletrail.co.uk/shale-stories/heart-shale-oil-industry/
Pumpherston Oil Works: https://scottishshale.co.uk/places/oil-works/pumpherston-oil-works-refinery/
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