Images and Presentations
Excellent for your interactive whiteboard!
East Lothian Museums Service has a wealth of photographs of our objects and of the local area.
You are welcome to download and use the following pictures; they are very useful for initiating reflection and discussion. Please note that these are free for educational use, but may not be modified or sold.
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- Tanks in Haddington
- Evacuees
- Land girls (Women's Land Army)
- A military funeral
- Airmen at Drem airfield
- Welcome Home Party
- A Spitfire
Working in East Lothian
- Miners in Prestongrange
- A creel fisherman's basket
- A modern combine harvester
- A smithy's workshop
- Brickworkers at Prestongrange
- A blacksmith's tools
- Fishwives in Cockenzie
- Horse-drawn transport
To open the above files you will need Adobe's free Acrobat reader.
Presentations
Using our photographs, we have created a number of powerpoint displays on different topics.
To save the presentations, and use them offline, PC users can right-click the links above and select "save as". Mac users can hold down CTRL and click on the links, then select "save file as".
Please note that you will need Microsoft's Powerpoint 2000 (or similar compatible software) or later to use these presentations.
If you don't have Powerpoint, you can download Openoffice.org's Impress software for free, or download Microsoft's free Powerpoint viewer.
Other Sources
Flickr
You can find more photographs on a variety of topics on our new East Lothian Museums group on Flickr!
SCRAN
We also contribute material and resources to the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network. This terrific resource also features sound, pictures, films and teaching materials on a wide variety of topics. It is completely free to use by East Lothian teachers.
Contact your head teacher for your log-in details, or go to www.scran.ac.uk.
East Lothian At War Multimedia Package
Our CD-Rom, developed in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund, commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. It tells the stories of the county during the conflict through artefacts and memorabilia from East Lothian's archives, and through new video interviews and audio clips. Although all free copies of the CD-Rom have been given away, you can still view the contents by clicking on the link below.
To view East Lothian At War, click here. You will need Shockwave player installed on your computer.
