THE first thing that strikes me about how different this picture would be today is not the open top bus - that would still be used - but the lack of selfies. It is October, 1958, Hearts has just won the League Cup in an emphatic 5-1 win against Partick Thistle, and the players, with captain Dave McKay holding the cup at the front of the bus, are showing off the trophy to thousands of fans in Edinburgh. But the players are not taking camera/phone pictures of the crowds and the fans are likewise not holding up phones to get pictures of the players.

It seems far more civilised.

Hearts really were the best team in Scotland at the time with forwards including Willie Bauld and Jimmy Wardhaugh scoring goals as if just for fun. As the Evening Times sports reporter put it: "This is no insult to Thistle, but it seemed to me that Hearts could have taken to the field with nine men, and still won." Well if that's him not being insulting, I'd hate to read him when he was.

There appear to be a few woman downstairs on the bus so perhaps the wives and girlfriends were hidden away out of view.

Captain Dave McKay, who sadly died earlier this year, was Scotland's Player of the Year in 1958, and played for his country 22 times. He even did two years of National Service in the fifties and travelled to Edinburgh to play whenever he had time off. It broke the heart of many a Hearts fan when the club transferred him to Spurs just five months after the League Cup win for the then sizeable sum of £32,000.

Anyway, we thought the Hearts fans would like the picture after having to endure Hibs parading around the city with the Scottish Cup just a few days ago.

NOT too sure of the law, but you would probably not be allowed to stand with your body out of the sun-roof of a car these days. This is Roy Jenkins in the exciting times of the Hillhead by-election in March, 1982, when Roy, a former Labour Chancellor, had left the party and helped form the SDP. Hillhead, which was said to be the British constituency with the highest percentage of university graduates, became quite giddy with the attention of the media when Roy stood, and won the seat.

He simply moved into the Pond Hotel for the duration, ate and drank in all of Glasgow's top restaurants - his favourite tipple was a fine bottle of claret - and held as many public meetings as he could which were all well attended. As The Herald reported his win: "A beaming Mr Roy Jenkins was subjected to bitter heckling, including jeers of traitor after his victory announcement. All of which he happily ignored."

Roy was MP at Hillhead for five years and took the title of Lord Jenkins of Hillhead when he went to to the Lords.

SO imagine you are a photographer sent to the Royal Highland Show. It's a great event at Ingliston on the outskirts of Edinburgh, held every June. But there are only so many ways you can take photographs of cattle and sheep. So you think of something different. And you notice there is also a fashion show taking place, and there is a model in a swimsuit. So you take her outside to one of the parade rings where you gather up gentlemen young and old in kilts. But you don't have them grinning at the camera. That would be too obvious. So you take the picture from the back, with the model carefully, yet seemingly casually, inserted just off the centre. It makes an unusual juxtaposition, which I am sure is how our artist with the camera described it to his picture desk.