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Sophie Law

Nostalgic pictures show exactly what your street looked like 100 years ago

Ever wondered what your street looked like 100 years ago?

If you're the type to dig through old photos, an online archive will show you all of Scotland's most magical moments from the past as you've never seen them before.

From 80s snapshots to war-time images, Memory Lane takes historical pictures from across the eras and breathes life back into them in full colour.

The tool, launched by our sister title InYourArea last year, lets you enter your postcode, city, street or town and search through thousands of photos.

You can search up the place you were born, a historical event in time, or the area you grew up in from any decade.

The feature also allows you to peer back through the time of places more than 100 miles away in the UK.

Take a l ook through the gallery of old photos below:

It even includes a feature to fully colourise your family's old black and white images from yesteryear, all for free.

Just some of the images in our archive are shown here - including shop assistants posing outside the New Woolworth store in possibly East Kilbride.

Other striking images shows a jive competition in Dundee and a pipe band performing on a CalMac ferry to Tobermory in 1973.

The Daily Record became the first newspaper in the world to use coloured photographs almost 90 years ago.

Until then, the public had only seen newspapers in black and white, but 40 years after the Daily Record was launched we gave the news a splash of colour in 1934.

What street would you like to see? Let us know in the comments section.

Take a look through the gallery above to see some incredible old photos.

To learn more about Memory Lane, click on the interactive widget above.

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