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Scotland Collection (page 16)

Background imageScotland Collection: Courting Couple

Courting Couple
16th April 1956: Young lovers walking down a solitary road in Gretna Green. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8451 - Gretna Green - unpub. (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Black Watch Sniper

Black Watch Sniper
20th August 1955: A lone soldier of the Black Watch Depot, Queens Barracks, Perth, during target practice. The Black Watch, Am Freiceadan Dubh in Gaelic

Background imageScotland Collection: Sheep Rescue

Sheep Rescue
12th September 1953: Three crofters set out for home with an injured lamb in Strath Gairloch, on the north west coast of the Scottish Highlands

Background imageScotland Collection: Glasgow University

Glasgow University
17th October 1953: Glasgow Univerity on Gilmorehill above the River Kelvin. The university, founded in 1451, is the second oldest in Scotland and the fourth oldest in Britain

Background imageScotland Collection: Highland Cattle

Highland Cattle
11th August 1945: A herd of Highland cattle in the foothills of the Grampian Mountains, Scotland. Kept mainly for their appearance

Background imageScotland Collection: Cattle Grazing

Cattle Grazing
11th August 1945: A herd of Highland cattle grazing in a valley in the Scottish Highlands. Kept mainly for their appearance

Background imageScotland Collection: Plaza Cinema

Plaza Cinema
1st October 1955: A neon sign lights up the Plaza cinema in the Scottish industrial town of Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock is home to a variety of industries

Background imageScotland Collection: Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle
30th January 1954: Edinburgh Castle at night with a memorial cross dedicated to Dean Ramsey in the foreground. Edinburgh Castle became a royal residence when James I was murdered in Perth (1437)

Background imageScotland Collection: Misty Monument

Misty Monument
30th January 1954: A monument in the mist silhouetted against Edinburgh Castle. There is evidence of Iron Age settlement in Edinburgh

Background imageScotland Collection: Winter Graveyard

Winter Graveyard
12th March 1955: A snow-covered graveyard in Edinburgh; away to the right of the church in this photograph Edinburgh Castle dominates the landscape

Background imageScotland Collection: Winter Loch

Winter Loch
12th March 1955: Ice forms on the surface of a Scottish lochin winter. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7596 - Scotland In The Snow - pub. 1955 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Winter Coat

Winter Coat
12th March 1955: One of the shaggy breed of Highland cattle standing in the snow at Millhill, near Crieff in Scotland. Kept mainly for their appearance

Background imageScotland Collection: Winter Plough

Winter Plough
12th March 1955: A solitary horse stands beside an idle plough on the shores of Loch Lubnaig in Stirling, Scotland. Agricultural work has stopped for the winter

Background imageScotland Collection: Hebridean Sunset

Hebridean Sunset
12th March 1955: The cliffs of Eigg and the peaks of the Isle of Skye seen at sunset from the Scottish coast at Mallaig. Mallaig is the westerly point of the Road to the Isles

Background imageScotland Collection: Wedding Couple

Wedding Couple
28th May 1955: The bride and bridegroom, Christine and Angus McDonald, following a local piper to the reception at a travelling peoples wedding in the village of Tong on the island of Lewis in

Background imageScotland Collection: Glenfinnan

Glenfinnan
4th June 1955: The monument at Glenfinnan, at the head of Loch Shiel, Invernesshire, which marks the spot where Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720 - 1788)

Background imageScotland Collection: Target Practice

Target Practice
4th June 1955: A cast-iron stag used for target practice on a remote moor at Black Corries Lodge near Glencoe in Scotland

Background imageScotland Collection: Giant Footprints

Giant Footprints
4th June 1955: A line of footprints mar the surface of the beach known as the silver sands of Morar in north-west Scotland

Background imageScotland Collection: Out To Dry

Out To Dry
4th June 1955: Clothes hanging on a washing line on a remote windy beach in Scotland. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7790 - The Road To The Isles - pub

Background imageScotland Collection: Lighthouse

Lighthouse
30th April 1955: A lighthouse in Aberdeen. The harbour in Aberdeen was developed in the late eighteenth century and the city prospered as a fishing port from that time

Background imageScotland Collection: Last To Leave

Last To Leave
11th July 1953: Dogs wait to join the inhabitants of the Isle of Soay in the Outer Hebrides, who have been evacuated to new homes on the Isle of Mull. The dogs will be the last to leave the island

Background imageScotland Collection: Reflected Hospital

Reflected Hospital
9th July 1955: The nurses home and corridor bridge at a new hospital in Alexandria, in the Leven Valley. It is the first hospital to be built in Britain since 1938 and has 156 beds

Background imageScotland Collection: Dundee Ferry

Dundee Ferry
25th June 1955: A group of people walking to catch a ferry from a Dundee pier. Dundee, situated on the banks of the dSilvery Tayf, is linked to Fife and the south of Scotland by a road bridge

Background imageScotland Collection: Window Shopping

Window Shopping
25th June 1955: A well-dressed woman surveys the window of a jewellery shop in Dundee. Dundee, situated on the banks of the dSilvery Tayf

Background imageScotland Collection: Army Exercises

Army Exercises
20th August 1955: Soldiers of the Black Watch going through their exercises at the Black Watch Depot, Queens Barracks, Perth

Background imageScotland Collection: Dounreay

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Background imageScotland Collection: Firth Of Tay

Firth Of Tay
The Firth of Tay at Dundee, on the east coast of Scotland, as seen from Dundee Law, 25th June 1955. The Tay Railway Bridge crosses the river in the distance

Background imageScotland Collection: Outdoor Pool

Outdoor Pool
circa 1925: Holidaymakers watching bathers swimming in an outdoor pool at the seaside town of North Berwick, on the East Lothian coast of Scotland

Background imageScotland Collection: Country Road

Country Road
circa 1930: A road in the Scottish countryside. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Western Highlands

Western Highlands
A calm lake in the Western Highlands of Scotland, 1961. (Photo bys Smith/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Sixteenth Century Britain

Sixteenth Century Britain
An early sixteenth century map of Great Britain, from The Cotton Library, circa 1500. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Bleaching Grounds

Bleaching Grounds
Textile workers laying out strips of cloth on the bleaching grounds of Monteiths dye works, Glasgow, 1844. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Forth Bridge

Forth Bridge
Five views of the Forth Bridge in Scotland, a railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, taken during its construction, circa 1885

Background imageScotland Collection: Battle of Bannockburn

Battle of Bannockburn
English cavalry in action at the battle of Bannockburn, 23rd-24th June 1314. The battle proved a major victory for the Scots in their wars of independence against the English

Background imageScotland Collection: Forth Bridge

Forth Bridge
The construction of the Forth Bridge in Scotland, a railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, circa 1885. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Dawn To Sunset

Dawn To Sunset
From Dawn to Sunset, a grim view of the life of a poor man and his family in Victorian Scotland, circa 1861. A painting by Thomas Faed. (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street
Trams on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Burns House

Burns House
Robert Burns house in Dumfries, in the south west of Scotland, circa 1900. A plaque on the wall informs visitors that the poet lived there from 1793 until his death in 1796

Background imageScotland Collection: Kilbirnie Castle

Kilbirnie Castle, Ayr, Scotland, from the north east, circa 1700. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Corn Exchange

Corn Exchange
The new Corn Exchange at Cupar, Fife, Scotland, circa 1700. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Bend In The Road

Bend In The Road
A car negotiates the hairpin bend on Rest and Be Thankful Hill, during the 7th day of the RAC 2000 mile International Reliability Trial, June 1908

Background imageScotland Collection: Consorts Sitting Room

Consorts Sitting Room
The sitting room used by Albert, Prince Consort (1819 - 1861) at Queen Victorias royal residence at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, circa 1850. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Paddle Your Own Canoe

Paddle Your Own Canoe
The Lady of the Lake, from the book by Sir Walter Scott, steadies her boat by resting an oar on the bank. Original Artwork: Engraving by Thomas Brown after Robert Herdman RSA

Background imageScotland Collection: Glasgow Close

Glasgow Close
circa 1860: Close No 65, High Street, Glasgow. Original Artwork: Photogravure by J C Annan of circa 1900, made from negatives of the 1860s belonging to his father or brother

Background imageScotland Collection: Glasgow Hospital

Glasgow Hospital
circa 1895: The stone frontage of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Background imageScotland Collection: Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle
circa 1830: Edinburgh Castle, historically the principal royal fortress of Scotland, perched on a massive volcanic rock that towers over the city and the Grassmarket

Background imageScotland Collection: Chase Me; The Last Of The Gaelic

Chase Me; The Last Of The Gaelic
23rd July 1955: Two girls running up the steps from a beach in the Scottish Western Isles. These children have spoken Gaelic for most of their lives

Background imageScotland Collection: Tugboat At Work; hauling a liner into one of the dockyards on Clydeside

Tugboat At Work; hauling a liner into one of the dockyards on Clydeside
17th July 1954: A tugboat hauls a liner into one of the dockyards on Clydeside. The shipyards are the major employers in the area and, while the demand is high



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