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Wednesday 6th January 2016
From one place of communication to another...
Today we find ourselves up a telegraph pole in the Badenoch and Strathspey village of Boat of Garten. We've chosen today's May 1968 image from our extensive John Hume Collection of photographs to commemorate 6th January 1838 when innovator Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph system of dots and dashes, a forerunner of Morse code. John Hume extensively documented Scotland's industries, and the buildings they were housed in, throughout his career as a Strathclyde University lecturer in Economic and Industrial History and as an Inspector of Historic Buildings. Do please remember that health and safety in 2016 is important!
Tuesday 5th January 2016
Putting a stamp on Arran's Whiting Bay
We're featuring a post office today to tie in with 5th January 1928, when a major revamp in legislation saw all workers over the age of 65, rather than 70, receiving a pension for the first time. This drawing is an early design for a post office and dwelling by James Houston, dating from the early 1920s. Houston has become known for his 1930s themed buildings: the Moorings Café and the Viking Cinema in Largs, along with the Radio Cinema in Kilbirnie. His drawings can be seen in the Houston and Dunlop Collection on Canmore.
Monday 4th January 2016
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas...
Here's an additional musician to accompany the eleven pipers piping usually associated with this day, the 4th January! Artist Sally Regis' work featured in the Jungle City exhibition of summer 2011. It saw 130 wild animal sculptures invade the city centre to the amusement of locals and tourists alike. Our musical ape friend here was captured by an HES photographer in the interior of Benson & Forsyth's Stirling Prize nominated National Museum of Scotland.
