There was certainly plenty going on in 1966 - the year that England won the football World Cup (not that they talk about it much).
The first ATM was installed in a bank in the USA, Walt Disney died and hazardous warnings started appearing on cigarette packets.
In Britain, The Beatles released ‘Revolver’, the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson won a snap general election by a landslide, and singer Rick Astley was born.
Meanwhile in Scotland, the Tay Road Bridge opened, Heriot-Watt College became Heriot-Watt University, and Chris Bonington led a group of mountaineers who climbed the Old Man of Hoy for the first time.
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18. Local legend
Scottish entertainer Stanley Baxter reads some of his telegrams in his dressing rooms backstage at the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh in April 1966. | TSPL
19. Flattened
A bulldozer piles up waste as the demolition of St James Square in Edinburgh continues in August 1966. | National World
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A member of the audience makes her point at the meeting in Hawick Town Hall to discuss the closure of the Edinburgh-Hawick section of the Waverley Line , September 1966.