TAKEN FROM JOHN'S ORIGINAL BOOK:

I would like to thank all the inhabitants of Stoneyburn and Bents for all the information, photographs and help they have given me, no matter how little or how much, for without it my task would have been almost impossible.  I regret very much that I did not attempt this work at an earlier date as so many of the 'Older Generation' are no longer with us and so I missed a very valuable source of living history.

Special thanks are due to the following:

Stoneyburn Community Council for financial assistance from their Special Project Fund.
West Lothian District Library Headquarters Local History Department.
British Coal Records Office and Mining Museum
Post Office Counters Ltd
British Telecom Archives Dept
Royal Bank of Scotland Archives Dept
Ordnance Survey
The School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University
The Scottish Records Office
The National Library of Scotland
Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland
Order of the Eastern Star
Boys' Brigade HQ
Girl Guides Association, Scotland
Edinburgh Area Scout Council
West Lothian Courier.

The following people must be especially thanked for their special contributions:

Margo Allan, Charlotte Anderson, Mary Black, Dora Boyd, Jim Bricknell, Jessie Bruce, Peter Currie, Phil Docherty, Melville Easton, Jimmy Ford, Rev. Ronnie Gall, Tom Gillon, Freddie Glidden, John Kelly, Mary Murdoch, Sadie Nicol, Hamish Purdie, Bertha and Jim Robertson, John Singleton, Walter Thomson, Tom Tweedy, Jean Watson and Jimmy White

There are two other people to whom I owe particular thanks:

Firstly, to Sybil Cavanagh of the Local History Department of West Lothian District Council Library HQ., who has been a fantastic mine of information and has spent a lot of time showing me how to get the most information from the department's vast resources.  I am also grateful to her for reading the manuscript and pointing out all the 'dodgy' bit for correction.
Secondly, to my personal friend, Barry Vickers, who convinced me that I should discard my ageing typewriter and purchase a home computer.   He has since spent many hours trying to educate me, a rather dim student, into the complexities of operating this 'new-fangled gadget' with a fair degree of success.   His prowess has resulted in the saving of enough paper to have conserved a small forest somewhere, and enough correction fluid to have floated the Q.W.II.

Thank you everybody
John Bishop Murray