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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Street scene. 3 kids show off their empty glass bottles. 'Cashing in the Empties', Glasgow, 1976. Children in Arcadia Street, Calton, showing off the empty bottles they have collected. The 5p per bottle was a useful source of pocket money. Photo Malcolm R Hill
June 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Kids of different ethnicities all huddled together looking at the camera. Kids at Grove School, Handsworth, 1967. Photo Eric Wadsworth
May 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Street scene. 4 kids on right of picture stand in a line, with a dog at the end, the dog has its front paws up on the last kids back. A small girl swigs from a can of juice on the left of the picture. Liverpool, 1975 Photo by Paul Trevor
April 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Scene looking down a half-pipe ramp. 2 kids on BMX bikes making air. Wild Bikes, Lower East Side, New York, 1986. Photo by Sylvia Plachy
April 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Street scene. A young boy stands in the foreground with his face obscured by a bubble he's blowing with his bubble gum. Maryhill, Glasgow late 1970s. Photo Douglas Corrance
March 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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When kids ruled the street
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Blackhill housing scheme in Glasgow, 1976.
Glasgow Herald Archives
Street scene. Rows of flats stand in the background, whilst kids in 1970s attire stand by what looks like a burning bed frame.
March 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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12th March 2017, I sabotaged the Resident Evil billboard at the Odeon in Dundee on the back of Trump's 'Muslim Ban'
Posters for 4 movies showing at the Odeon Cinema. Dirty Dancing, Sing, Valetines Day, and Resident Evil. A capital P with an American flag has been stuck on to read President Evil, with Trumps face stuck onto Milla Jovovic's body, she's riding a motorcycle shooting behind her..
March 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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When kids ruled the streets
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Kids playing Kerby in Niddrie, Edinburgh, 1989.
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Via Craigmillar Gold YouTube channel
March 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Street scene. A young black kid stands on the middle of a pavement blowing a bubble with gum. Chicago, 1951 Photograph: Marvin Newman
February 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Hulme, Manchester, 1986. Photo Stuart Franklin Street scene. There is a row of terraced houses on the left of the image, and waste ground on the right. A shipping container sits on the waste ground, numerous kids standing on top of the container, one is diving like a pro towards mattresses on the ground. A wee guy sits in the foreground on his BMX.
January 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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He broke 3 transfer fee records in his career, scored 237 goals in 404 games for Man United, and picked up 55 Scotland caps.
Here he is at 16yrs of age, in the year he made his professional debut for Huddersfield Town in 1956. #RIP Denis Law 🕊
Photo: Don Morley
A young Denis Law sitting putting his muddy football boots on in a changing room.
January 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Sclater Street, London, 1975. Photo Paul Trevor. One young boy stands in the foreground with a cardboard box on his head, one stands in the background playing with a small acoustic guitar
January 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Naziyah Mahmood, artist, Astrophysicist Aerospace Engineer & martial artist, on a march for Scottish independence, Glasgow, Jan 2020.
Street scene. Naziyah stands front and centre staring just past the camera, she's got a light coloured headscarf and duffle style coat on. A lad standing behind her on right off image holds a Saltire with the Aberdeen FC badge on it.
January 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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The Art of Album Covers.
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Boys Escaping C.S. gas fired by British soldiers, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1971
Photo Don McCullin
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Used by Killing Joke on their debut studio album, released on 5th October 1980.
Smoke filled street scene. Lots of youths running, some already on the ground, and those coming over the wall on right are silhouetted with the smoke behind them.
January 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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The weekend starts here...
Vintage photo of small curly haired child sitting on a small wooden chair, legs crossed, smoking a cigar.
January 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Let's knock Friday right out the park
Springburn, Glasgow, 1968. Photo Morton Gillespie. Street scene. 6 kids on a wall with tenement blocks in the background. Older boy on the left sits with sunglasses on, and cigarette in hand.
January 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Streets of Aberdeen, 2018.
Two women walking side by side, both have their hands clasped in front of them.
January 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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When kids ruled the streets
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Glasgow, 6th March 1971.
Photo Bill Rowntree
Street scene. View looking down a wide street, nothing on the road other than kids playing football, one kid has just hoofed the ball.
January 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Streets of Torry, Aberdeen, 2018.
Street scene. Image of a lone block of flats with sunlight beating over the block.
January 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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I worked on the Brents in the 1990s and have to admit the Alpha never looked so good.
A top end quality print, stunning image, colours are sublime, detail incredible, and a perspective I never seen in all the years I worked up there.
Thanks so much @marcdavenant.bsky.social delighted with this 📸🔥
Photo of the Brent Alpha oil platform in dry dock for decommissioning.
January 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The Art of Album Covers
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Skeleton orchestra, from an exhibit in a health museum in Brussels, undated photo.
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Used by The Specials on Ghost Town, released 1981.
Designed by David Storey
2 skeletons sit at a piano, one skeleton stands behind holding a wicker basket, and another is seated with its head bowed.
January 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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St Enoch Square, Glasgow, 1955.
Image Daily Record Archives.
Street scene. Photo taken looking over St Enoch Square in Glasgow, lots of vintage cars in the image.
December 27, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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One more sleep kids....
Vintage photo. A terrifying looking Santa stands beside a young girl on a donkey.
December 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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The Ghosts of Christmas past #AdventCalendar - Day 24.
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Two kids show off their Christmas presents, Crown Street, Gorbals, Glasgow, December 1970.
Photo TSPL
Two young boys stand in a Glasgow backcourt, both holding space hoppers with astronaut helmets on.
December 24, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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'Enoch Powell and Bubble Gum Boy', Wolverhampton, 1970.
Photo Paul Hill
Racist politician Enoch Powell stands on the back of a truck with a megaphone, a young boy with a Paisley patterned shirt stands on the left blowing a bubble with chewing gum.
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM