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Tag: Trove

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 21, 2026August 21, 2026

‘Here is the evidence that Scotland is alert and looking forward’

North Star and Farmers Chronicle, 30 August 1947:

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: 1947, Edinburgh, Enterprise Scotland, exhibition, Industry, museum, Royal Scottish Museum, Scotland, Trove
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 20, 2026

‘Like a hidden memory’

TROVE entry for the reverse side of Ben Nicholson’s (two circles):  

Categories: ScotlandTags: Art, Ben Nicholson, circles, galleries, labels, memory, outside the circle of listeners, travellers, Trove
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

Time eventually positions

Image: Trove archive [dated 1907]. Words: Susan Sontag ‘On Photography‘

Categories: Time passesTags: Local time passed into history, Photography, Susan Sontag, Time passes. Listen, Trove
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 20, 2026

‘The GROTTO’

I came across this architectural design in the TROVE archive. I have no idea if the design was ever more than a design, or indeed any more about it. The … Continue reading ‘The GROTTO’

Categories: Architecture, ScotlandTags: 1967, architect, design, Edinburgh, Grotto, Trove
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 19, 2026

MAD BUYER

117 London Road Edinburgh [sketch from a Trove photograph taken in the early 1980s]

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: advert, advertisement, advertising, commercialisation, Edinburgh, MAD BUYER, shop windows, shops, sketches, television, Trove, tv
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 11, 2026August 11, 2026

Up in the clouds

Out-shots from one of my favourite short archive clips: To play a short film, called Track + Field, please click here Music credit: Track and FieldĀ  by JJerome87

Categories: Folk worth talking about, Omphalos filmsTags: Alt-J, athletics, High Jump, JJerome87, Julian Barnes, Omphalos films, pain, The Canyon, Track and Field, Trove, Up in the clouds
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 11, 2026

A bit of retail . . .

A selection of shop fronts from the Trove archive:

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Edinburgh, Glasgow, GRAFTONS, Local time passed into history, Radio, retail, retail therapy, shop windows, shops, sixty minute cleaners, sixty years since, television, Trove, Typewriters
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 11, 2026August 11, 2026

AUTOMOBILISM

A selection of some of my favourite automobile images from Trove:

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: automobilism, car park, cars, Edinburgh, garage, Global warming, Local time passed into history, Motorail, Petrol, Photography, Time passes. Listen, Trove

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