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There was plenty going on in the world in 1959 - the year Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba.
Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states of the USA, Barbie dolls were sold for the first time and Ben-Hur was released in cinemas.
In Britain the Mini motor car was released, postcodes were introduced and the first episode of Juke Box Jury aired on the BBC.
Meanwhile in Scotland the Chapelcross nuclear power station opened, 47 people died in the Auchengeich mining disaster, and Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr was born.
Here are 23 pictures to take you back to that time.
5. Fill her up
The vaults at JG Thomson and Company wine merchants at in Leith. They celebrated their 250th anniversary in November 1959. | National World
6. New home
A councillor shakes the hand of Alice Mann, one of the first residents of the New Dumbiedykes Flats in Edinburgh in 1959. | National World
7. Feathered friends
A mother and daughters feeding the pigeons in Princes Street Gardens, in Edinburgh, in the summer of 1959. | National World
