Guthrie Hutton Book order

Mining expert Guthrie Hutton is the author of this compact overview of the Scottish coal industry in our old towns/industries format. Besides the well-known and remembered Lanarkshire, Fife, Lothian, Central and Ayrshire coalfields, the black stuff was got out of the ground at various minor unlikely locations - Brora in Sutherland, Rowanburn in Dumfriesshire, Dalquharran in the Girvan Valley and the Argyll Colliery at the southern end of the Kintyre Peninsula. These sites are featured as are better-known ones such as Barony, Killoch, Highouse, Minnivey, Coalburn, Farme, Bedlay, Banknock, Millhall, Kinneil, Kelty, Glencraig, Bowhill, Rothes and Arniston. The book also deals with aspects of mining life such as disasters, housing, pipe bands, miners' welfare homes and strikes.

The Isle of Skye has been the subject of many books of old photographs of this type from various publishers including ourselves. Hence why we have used one of our best authors and married him to a selection of unusual photographs which in the main have not been seen before. Some are from super-rare postcards and some are private photographs so this selection should satisfy the locals as well as visitors and they will all learn something new from an author who has that unusual ability to make new observations. If reports can be believed the summer experience on Skye today is of being trampled underfoot by your fellow tourists but the photos here show an island still magic but more remote and less visited with cars strapped or perched precariously on ferries the size of rowing boats gipsies camping by Loch Slapin when they scratched a living doing seasonal work peat-cutting the hard reality of crofting 100 years ago and the less formal nature of the budget visitor experience in times gone by.

This new companion volume to the authors Puffers which we published in 2007 and have had to reprint many times since. The subject matter is dear to the authors heart as he is a canal enthusiast and of course puffers worked some of Scotlands canals. While at the BBC he worked on the television series The Vital Spark. He also collects images of puffers assiduously and essentially told us he had found so many previously unseen pictures we had to do a new book. Nobody will be disappointed with the selection here which includes locations such as Crinan Dunoon Rothesay Lochranza Brodick Ruchill Kirkintilloch Kirkcaldy Portree Bowling Fort Augustus and more. All are accompanied by lengthy and detailed captions.

From Scottish canals expert Gurthie Hutton this covers the route of the Union Canal from the heart of Edinburgh to the Falkirk Wheel. Taking in the rise and fall of the canal extensively captioned photographs both recent and archived tell the fascinating story of this canal.

Photograph book exploring the social, architectural and topographical history in the area of and around Montrose including Inverkeilor, Lyman Bay, Rossie, Usan, Ferryden, Bridge of Dun, Hillside, Dubton and Craigo.