Historic pictures of Scotland from the sky including Hampden Park 100 years ago

An incredible collection of aerial images shows some of Scotland's best-known landmarks from the sky. Snaps in the National Collection of Aerial Photography lets us see how our country has changed over the decades.

Among the other standout images are: the Queen Mary being built at John Brown's shipyard in the 1930s; the Wallace Monument in Stirling; and Kinnoull Tower in Perthshire, taken through a gap in the wing of a biplane. In 1932, he was asked by John Buchan, an MP and the famous author of The 39 Steps, to lead a mission to take a photo of the top of Mount Everest from above. This was seen as the last big challenge for planes on the world's surface.

Top news stories today So, in 1944, certain RAF squadrons were given the job of making a complete photographic map of all of Scotland. The same planes, pilots and photographers who had helped plan and carry out the bombing of Europe were now helping to rebuild at home.

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