Last week, Scran met with Iain Robertson, the Development Officer of South Lanarkshire Libraries, in part to discuss the part Scran might play in the forthcoming East Kilbride 70th anniversary Celebrations. We're greatly looking forward to this event, and will share more details as it approaches. In the meantime see some of our Scran East Kilbride content here.
While we were talking, Iain mentioned that he'd been playing around with some old Scran imagery of the local area around East Kilbride, and that he'd been inserting it into present-day pictures to create a sort of "Then and Now" montage. We think the results are stunning. The photo of St Bride's in particular is terrific, as it restores an original feature (the tall tower) that has since been lost.
The montaged image of Torrance House in East Kilbride, meanwhile, shows a building (in black and white with the cars parked outside it) that no longer exists, and a pond that has since been filled in! The original Scran Torrance House image is here. The original image from Scran of St Bride's is here, while the original of Mains Castle is here.
If you want to do something similar, at school, college, or just for fun, you can. Your Scran subscription gives you the right to download ANY Scran image (or sound or video) and to reuse it, edit it etc. If you do find an old pic and can insert it into a present-day image, as Iain has done, we'd be delighted to feature your montage here.