There was plenty going on in the world in 1960 - the year that saw John F. Kennedy elected President of the United States of America.
It saw Chile hit by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, the temprature of the Cold War plummet when the U-2 American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, the birth control pill approved as safe to use, and Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann captured.
In Britain future Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance was born, Manchester City signed a 20-year-old Denis Law for a record £55,000, Lonnie Donegan went to number one with My Old Man's a Dustman, and the Grand National was televised for the first time.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow claimed the lives of 19 firemen - becoming the UK's worst peacetime fire services disaster.
1. Marching
The Miners Gala Day down Leith Street, in Edinburgh, on May 2, 1960. | National World
2. Are you insured?
The Yorkshire Insurance Stand at the Royal Highland Show in 1960. | National World
3. Hanging out
Teenagers haging around outside a telephone box in Kirkcaldy in 1960. | National World
4. New car smell
A brand new 1960 Sunbeam Rapier sitting outside a car showroom in Scotland. | National World