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White Line Company, commenced to run buses to Port Seton.
Immediately the Musselburgh Traction Company put their own
buses (The Coast Line) on the road, running from Port Seton
to Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. In 1937 the Coast Line was
taken over by the Scottish Motor Traction Co. The tramcars
ceased to run about March 1928, as it was no doubt uneconomical
to try to keep up the track under the heavy traffic conditions
which developed after the 1914-18 war.
The parish is well served by buses as there are available
those which run between Edinburgh and Port Seton by the
coast road every quarter of an hour and those which run
between Edinburgh and North Berwick on the inland road every
half-hour.
The Prestonpans Go-operative Society has four grocery shops,
two butchers' shops, one confectionery and fruit shop, a
gentlemen's hairdressing saloon, a modern bakery, a boot-
repairing shop, a drapery, a boot shop, a hardware shop,
a painting department, a joinery and undertaking department,
and a smithy. It owns 7 motor and 3 horse-drawn vans, and
is at present experimenting with an all-electric vehicle
for the delivery of milk, bread, etc. In addition there
are a number of private shops serving the everyday needs
of the people. Apart from two co-operative shops, a chemist,
a newsagent, and a restaurant in the new housing area at
Preston, all are in the burgh
Public Services.- For over a century prior to 1902
a well near Bankton Colliery was the source of most of the
domestic water supply, but in that year gravitation supplies
from Lammerloch Reservoir were brought to the burgh. Since
1922 both parish and burgh have come within the Water Board
schemes. It is probable that there are now no houses in
the parish that are without piped water. The brewery obtains
a special supply of water from a well near the railway station,
but, apart from this, wells are not used except in emergency.
The collection and disposal of refuse is carried out by
the Burgh and County councils. There is a tendency for adjoining
burghs to amalgamate their scavenging services, and amalgamation
has already been effected with regard to the disposal of
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