Scotland in the Fifties: Here are 23 amazing pictures showing Scottish life in 1959

Scotland was a very different place at the end of the 1950s.

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.

13. Toast to the laddies

The Burns Club Supper at the Peacock Hotel, in Newhaven, on January 20, 1959 (left-right) Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Crighton and Sydney Goodsir Smith. | TSPL

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14. Great man

Scottish physicist Professor Charles Thomson Rees Wilson on his 90th birthday in 1959, the year of his death. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics. | TSPL