Prestoungrange House, Scotland
The Earliest Records – the late 12th and early 13th Centuries
Sonia Baker
Prestoungrange House is an impressive mansion located in its own policies between Prestonpans and Musselburgh at the far western extremity of the county of East Lothian, Scotland. The house is situated about half a mile from the sea, and has extensive views north over the Firth of Forth, towards Fife. In 1958, the property was purchased by the Coal Industry Social & Welfare Organisation (CISWO), and is held in trust by the Musselburgh Miners' Charitable Society. As a golfing sub-section of the latter, Prestongrange is the home course of the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club.
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Prestoungrange History Series - Fowler's Brewery
Writing in the late eighteenth century, the Reverend John Trotter recorded in the tatistical Account of the Parish of Prestonpans that 'in the year 1754 there were 16 brewers whereas there are only 5 brewers now'. By the mid-twentieth century, there was only one. It traded from the Prestonpans Brewery under the name John Fowler and Company Limited and had established a national reputation as a brewer of strong bottled ales.
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Prestoungrange History Series - The Grant-Sutties: Owners in the Industrial Age
This article is the first in the series and begins with Book 1 which focuses on the Grant Sutties.
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Prestoungrange History Series - Fowler's Brewery.
By David Anderson
The Brewery's sale by the family proprietors to a new company under the freshly introduced legislation ushered in a new chapter in Prestonpans' brewing history. From 1865 the sequence of formal changes necessarily recorded under the Act afford a window upon the concerns of its leaders.
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Prestoungrange History Series - Decorative Pottery at Prestoungrange
By Jane Bonnar
Why was the pottery industry concentrated in the coastal region of East Lothian? Early eighteenth century conditions provided all resources required allowing the industry to takeoff. A good quality local clay from Upper Birslie Plantation (or 'Clay Holes'), coal mined at Prestongrange and nearby Elphinstone, water power at Morrison's Haven Harbour and Pinky Burn, a working harbour at Morrison's Haven bringing in china clay and flint and a central position giving access to markets - all contributed to success in the nineteenth century.
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Prestoungrange History Series - Acheson's Morrison's Haven
Morrison's Haven was home to a harbour for almost five hundred years. Originally known as Newhaven, this name was used intermittently until the 18th century, along with the name Acheson's Haven after Alexander Atkinson of Salt-Prestoun (now Prestonpans).
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Industrial Ownership and Relations at Prestoungrange - Part 1
Prestoungrange colliery is situated near Prestonpans, on the edge of the old County of Haddingtonshire, in East Lothian. The 21st Century will witness it entering its 900th year as a known mining concern. Its story has been a long and dramatic one.
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Industrial Ownership and Relations at Prestoungrange - Part 2
During the tenure of the Grant-Sutties, industrial coal production at Prestongrange began in earnest. The connection between the houses of Grant of Prestongrange and Suttie of Balgone from which Sir James Grant-Suttie traced his inheritance had been established in 1757 with the marriage of Janet’s younger sister Agnes to James’ father, Sir George Suttie of Balgone. Sir George had been a keen advocate of ‘Improvement’, an ideology focused particularly on the development of commercial agriculture, and a forerunner of 19th Century industrialism. He would no doubt have been impressed by the Century-long advance of the Industrial Revolution and its enormous impact on coal mining operations at Prestongrange.
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Industrial Ownership and Relations at Prestoungrange - Part 3
The Prestoungrange Colliery and estate was sold by the 24-year-old Sir George Grant-Suttie to the Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Company in 1894. The coming of this new owner heralded a dramatic and long-term upturn in the fortunes of the colliery. 
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