Originally both these services were run by the General Post Office until 1969 when the latter split away to become Post Office Telephones.   This separate service continued to operate until it was privatised in 1981 and became British Telecommunications, or BT.   It is not known when the first telephones were installed in the village but, on a race-card for Whippet Racing on the 2nd April 1926, the proprietors, the Paton Brothers, give their phone number as Stoneyburn No 8.   The earliest subscribers are listed in July 1933 when there were 15 subscribers and it is fair to assume that the Colliery and Stoneyburn House would have been two of the very first even though not included on the list.   In the first directory: Bathgate; Group B, the following only are listed:  Crofthead Co-op, Dr. Charles Fleming, A. Hamilton, Ambulance HQ, Bents Station, Angus Paton and the Police Station.   These were the following numbers respectively, Stoneyburn 30, 24, 32, 23, 28 and 22.   It is of added interest to note that in those early years, most of the subscribers in Blackburn had Stoneyburn numbers as did two others in Addiewell, Rev. E. J. Connolly and D. Tod, Contractor.

The first automatic exchange was built in 1933.   This was updated and enlarged and was sited behind the old gatehouse and covered the phones in Addiewell and Loganlea as well,   The newest and more modern exchange was built near Briar Cottage behind the Nursery in 1985 and handled 419 lines of which 65 were businesses and the other 348 were private households.   The first public telephone kiosk was erected in Stoneyburn, next to the gatehouse, in 1949 and was moved to its present site near the War Memorial in 1982.   The kiosk in Bents was erected in 1952.

The first Post Office was housed in one of the shops in Dewar's Buildings and Miss Elizabeth Dewar was the first Postmistress from 1926 until 1931, when it was moved to the gatehouse and Mr McGowan took over the duties of Postmaster.   Jimmy White then took over the premises and became Postmaster as well as the Chemist until 1948 when he moved into the present Chemist's Shop and Mr Duncan Winton took the job of Postmaster in April 1951 and moved the business into the shop where the Post Office is now situated.   He emigrated to Canada in 1952 and Mr Watson Robertson from Postal H.Q. took over for a short time as acting Postmaster.   In September of that year the job was undertaken by Mrs Catherine McCrae until her husband, Murdo, became Postmaster in January 1953 until he retired in 1957.   He was succeeded my Mr Walter Mullard and his wife Betty who both ran the Office there until they built the large shop to the west of their garden and transferred the Post Office into it in 1974.   The Mullards then moved to take over Whitburn Post Office and John Murray and his wife Suzanne took over the running of the Post Office in Stoneyburn in July 1977.   In January 1983 they closed the shop and re-housed the Post Office back to the old shop premises adjoining their house where is still operates.

During the first years of the village all the mail was sorted and delivered from Fauldhouse until 25th May 1923, when the correct postal address was changed to Stoneyburn, West Lothian.   Since then the mail has been brought direct to the village and sorted here for delivery.   In those days there were two deliveries each day, but this was reduced to a single delivery in 1982.   The Telegram service which had been run from the Post Office and their delivery which had been part of the Sub-Postmaster's duties, was terminated in September 1982 and a new Tele-message Service was introduced by 'BT'.   The sorting office in the village closed in 1986 and the post women had to travel to Bathgate to sort the mail and then bring it to the village for delivery.   This was supposed to be called progress under the banner of 'centralisation', but was it?   During the 1990's the Post Office Business was split into three separate companies:  Royal Mail for all letters, Parcel Force to deal with other larger items, and Post Office Counters, to provide all other aspects of Post Office Business.

From the beginning of mail deliveries in the village up to 1939 all the Postmen and Post women had lived in the village.   The first two were Will Hannah and Sandy Potter, and they were followed by Bill Johnston and Margaret Kennedy.   The next ladies to take on the job were Joanne (Jan) Scott and Sadie Nicol.   Sadie started in 1957 and retired after 26 years service in 1983 and worked with several 'posties' during her career, including Marion Hope, Margaret McDowall, Anne McLean, Mary Black, June McGhee, William Colquhoun and Mary MacMillan.   The latter Mary started the job in 1979 and is still delivering the mail although not in the village any more, having been moved to Whitburn.   Sue Murray, the Postmaster's wife, took over from William Colquhoun in 1984 and shared burdens with Mary MacMillan for seven years until Eileen Elliot took over her job in 1991.   Eileen too is also still a Post woman but has been moved to Fauldhouse and the deliveries in Stoneyburn are now undertaken by an ever-changing procession of 'Posties' from Bathgate.   During the 1980's there were several other people who took on the job but quickly found out that the early starts, and trudging round the village in all weathers with a very heavy mailbag, was not to their liking and often gave up within a matter of weeks and sometimes after only a few days.

In 1923 the National Bank of Scotland, Fauldhouse Branch, opened a sub-office in a room at St Quentin's House.   It was only open for a few hours one day each week.   In 1930 this was 11:15am-1:15pm on Fridays, but by 1954 it was also open from 2:00pm-4:00pm on Mondays.   In 1931 the Bank purchased the house on the Main Street called 'Kia Ora' which was owned by William Steel.   The house had a chip shop attached to it and must have been the first 'Chippie' owned, but not run by, a bank.   The bank was operated in the front room on the west side of the house.

In 1927 the Commercial Bank of Scotland, West Calder Branch, opened a sub-office in St Quentin's House, which was open on Mondays from 12:00-2:00pm and on Fridays from 1:00pm-3:00pm.   This office did not survive long enough to see the merger of these two banks to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1959, as it closed about 1948.   This new bank then merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1969 and continued to operate from the main Fauldhouse Branch, but this time from its new premises in the old chip shop which had been converted in 1965 and did so until it was closed in 1986.   This most unfortunate move caused quite a furore in the village as the customers were now faced with having to travel either to Fauldhouse or Blackburn to conduct their banking.   The furore led to a mobile bank, based at Newbridge, being re-routed to Stoneyburn for two hours (at lunch-time) on Tuesdays and Fridays.   However, this respite did not last very long as it was withdrawn finally in 1990.    The property was put on the market and finally sold on the 12th November 1992 thereby ending another era in the history of the village.

It is also possible that The British Linen Bank may have attempted to gain a foothold in the village as, in the mid-1950's, it owned the 'Ewington Hotel', and may have had a sub-branch there, but this has not been verified.