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Jazzateers from Glasgow. 4 albums, 3 singles. Pop/post-punk group, active for the first half of the 1980s. Recorded for Postcard and Rough Trade labels.
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Buses of Edinburgh: 4 to Hillend in St Andrew Square. (1990) Pic: Paul Coupland
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Irina Ratushinskaya at a book signing in Waterstone's, George Street, Edinburgh in June 1988.Ā Ratushinskaya was a Soviet poet and dissident sentenced to seven years in a labour camp who found refuge in the UK in the 1980s. Pic:Ā Hamish Campbell
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Tay Bridge and Dundee Law. Pic: IG | funkmasterdoogan
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Vicarton Street, Girvan in August 1987. Looking from the old bus garage to the railway bridge - train station on right. Pic: Billy McCrorie
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St Vincent Lane, Glasgow. Pic: John McKissock
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The Pink House from a different angle, from here you can see some of the windows are painted in
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Talisker Bay, Isle of Skye. Pic: Martin Steele
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Susan Vidler as Lady Macbeth in 'Macbeth on the Estate', 1997.
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Albums of Scotland: Boots for Dancing - The Undisco Kidds. Released on the Athens of the North label in 2015. Compilation of recordings from the early-1980s, including John Peel sessions.
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I worked there in the late seventies as a student.
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Movies of Scotland: Filming 'Outlaw King' outside Glasgow Cathedral in 2018.
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Scottish emigrants, bound for the Canadian prairies, 1920s. Pic:Ā Canadian Pacific Railway Archives
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Tay Bridge, Dundee. Pic: Mathew Schwartz
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A demolition worker makes the most of the dramatic view from his 210 foot high scaffold vantage point on the about to be demolished high rises Cairngorm House and Grampian House in Leith. (1997) Pic:Ā Paul Edwards
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Pubs of Scotland: The Beachcomber Bar, Butlin's Ayr.
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Loch Glass, Highlands. Pic: IG/merlins_mind
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I lived across the street when it was an ironmongers.
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Dixie Deans - 186 appearances for Celtic, 125 goals, 1971ā1976. Scored hat-tricks in theĀ 1972 Scottish Cup finalĀ and theĀ 1974 Scottish League Cup final, both against Hibernian.
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The Old Spence Cafe, Queen Charlotte Street, Leith. Pic: Alan Wilson
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Duncansby Stacks, Caithness. Pic: IG/markmcgeephotos
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Prisoners in the remand wing of Saughton Prison in May 1993.Ā Pic: Hamish Campbell
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Albums of Scotland: 'Hipsway'. Released on the Mercury label in 1986.
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Scottish Cuisine: Square sausage & haggis doubler on a well-fired roll. Pic: Brian Wilkie
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Foresters Park, Tranent. Home of Tranent FC. (2025) Pic: Joris van de Wier.
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Menu at the Globetrotter fish and chip shop in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh. (1988)
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The Skye Ferries at Kyle of Lochalsh, 1960s. Kyleakin (II) and Portree (II)
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Trig point on Brinkieās Brae above Stromness, Orkney. Pic: Matt Walker
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Scotland manager Jock Stein at the 1982 World Cup Draw in Madrid, with Northern Ireland manager Billy Bingham and England manager Ron Greenwood.
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Leith-born actor Tam Dean Burn. Known for films The Acid House, Young Adam, Shell and Moon Dogs. Pic: Geraint Lewis
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This in my top 5 albums of the 90's. An incredible album.
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The dance floor at Oscars, Brown Street, Dundee. (1990) Pic: DCT
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Janey
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Oh to be 16 again at the Garden Festival with the one and only Jesse Rae.
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"Good Deeds and Dirty Rags" (Goodbye Mr Mackenzie 1989) still a great album !
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Celebrating the 1,000th edition of North Tonight at Grampian Television. (1980s)
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Shirley Manson of Garbage, 2025 Pic: Chantal Anderson
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Sithean Bhealaich Chumhaing, Isle of Skye. Pic: IG/russell_davies
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Mel Gibson pictured during the production of Braveheart in 1994. The movie was filmed at locations such as Glen Nevis, Glen Coe, and the area around Fort William.
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Ride the North
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Not busy enough to be one of their '50p a pint nights' in 1986/87 ish (when pints elsewhere were about £1.50). Walk in (45 mins), walk home (60 mins), 5 pints and a couple of butteries out the back door of the bakery at 3am ...total night cost = £3. Up and out for school at 8am the next day!
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The 'lift' section of the Coca Cola Roller at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. Pic: Yottanesia | Creative Commons
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Albums of Scotland: Del Amitri - Twisted. Released on the A&M label in 1995.
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Alan Muttley
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Resting on the High Land
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St Enoch railway station, Glasgow, 6 May 1974. The station closed in 1966, and was demolished in 1977, with the site being used as a car park in the interim. Pic: Kevin Lane | Flickr
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The same station ramp in the '70s and June 2004
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Call-a-Cab Taxis in Milton Street, Dundee. (1990) Pic: DCT
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Nightclubs of Scotland: On the dance floor at Ritzy's, Bridge Place, Aberdeen. (1980s)
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Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, 1983. Pic: Deborah Feingold
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Loch Trool, Galloway Forest Park. Pic: IG/peterdinsmore
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Three Cheers for Our Side š¶
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Vehicle and pedestrian ramp into Waverley Station, Edinburgh in February 1981. Pic: Michael Patterson
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