WHO remembers the scramble? Horses and carts on Glasgow streets? Surf washing powder and Dandy Tea? These photographs take us back to Glasgow, 1955, when the summer was so hot, there were reports of melting tarmac. These images of Glasgow have been recorded not just in official statistics or in people’s memories, but in a remarkable photographic survey carried out by the city’s camera clubs and now part of Glasgow Museums’ collection. The idea for a citywide photographic survey began as a discussion after one of Partick Camera Club’s weekly meetings. Under the leadership of Adam Stevens, Partick Camera Club’s energetic president, it soon blossomed into a full-scale project involving ten of Glasgow’s camera clubs with 86 amateur photographers, and resulted in 600 photographic prints that record all aspects of Glasgow life.
A lost artefact from the Great Pyramid dating back around 5,000 years has been discovered in a cigar tin in a university collection. The fragment of cedar wood was one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the pyramid at Giza in Egypt after they were discovered in the Queens Chamber in 1872 by the engineer Waynman Dixon. Two of them – a ball and hook – are now housed in the British Museum but the piece of wood had been missing for more than a century. In 2001, a record was discovered which indicated the wood fragment may have been donated to the University of Aberdeen’s museum collections but it had never been classified and could not be found.
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