Projects

[1169] Roseburn celebrates the Coronation, 1953

Black and white images of this Edinburgh suburb celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, including a children's fancy dress competition. 

Keywords: party, fancy dress

Location of Project Material: Lothian

[1168] St Michael's Parish Church, Edinburgh

Images relating to St Michael's Church in Slateford Road, Edinburgh, kindly contributed by Scran user Mary Donald.

Keywords: guiding, guides, parish, church, Slateford

Location of Project Material: Lothian

[1167] Functionalist architecture in Brno

Brno is a fascinating mix of architectural styles, from Gothic cathedrals to art nouveau villas. In the early 20th century, several architects developed a new style which would reflect the rising status of the working and middle classes. Functionalism eschewed the opulent and ornately decorated styles that had come to represent the aristocracies and strove to find aesthetic expression not in decoration, but within the building materials’ own abilities to form and facilitate the functions the overall structure was intended for. This set of images shows some of Brno's most well-known functionalist buildings, with particular emphasis on Mies' Villa Tugendhat.

Keywords: Czech Republic, Mies, function, modernist

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1166] Visible Girls/ Invisible Spaces

Visible Girls: Revisited/Invisible Spaces was a pair of exhibitions that took place at Edinburgh's Summerhall in November and December 2018 as part of the Scottish Year of Young People. Visible Girls: Revisited was created by the photographer Anita Corbin, while Invisible Spaces was Historic Environment Scotland's response to the images and themes in Visible Girls: Revisited, featuring work created by 29 young Scottish people. These images document the exhibitions.

Keywords: Youth, identity, belonging, punks, mods, skinheads

Location of Project Material: Central Scotland

[1165] Scotland's Inhabited Islands

Over a period of two years in the late 1990s, Cairns Aitken undertook a series of visits to all of Scotland's inhabited islands, some of which are inhabited by less than 10 people! These islands vary in size, height and topography, and include Cumbrae, Mull, Colonsay and Coll. This collection was kindly licensed to Scran by the late Prof. Cairns Aitken, an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, who became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retired as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He had a life-long interest in photography. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Keywords: islands, wildlife, ferries, people, isles

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland

[1164] Tweeddale U3A Audio Records

The University of the Third Age (U3A) was founded in Paris in 1979 and is now an international organisation. It came to the UK in 1982 and there are currently over a quarter of a million members in over 1000 independently-run U3As under the umbrella of the Third Age Trust. Each U3A provides educational, creative and recreational activities in a friendly environment, and is open to anyone who is no longer in full-time employment.  

Tweeddale U3A, serving Peebles and the surrounding area, was founded in 2004 and now has over 200 members and 28 interest groups, with two additional groups due to open in the very near future.

The audio records created as part of this project comprise interviews conducted with and by Tweeddale U3A members. All the participants have lived and worked in the Borders for many years, and some have spent most of their lives in the area. The subjects covered in these fascinating and wide-ranging conversations include schools days, work, leisure activities, wartime, the 1950s and more. They provide a great insight into life in the Borders, and are a must for anyone with an interest in local history.

Keywords: audio, oral history, Borders, Tweeddale, U3A

Location of Project Material: Borders