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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MX9FPP - Concept image showing Scottish banknotes and coins beside a lit domestic gas hob, illustrating the pressure of rising household energy costs on home budgets in Scotland and across the UK. The photograph links everyday cooking, heating and fuel use with consumer finance, inflation, cost of living pressures, utility bills, and the squeeze on disposable income faced by households during periods of high gas prices. Visible cash and currency emphasise budgeting choices, bill payment worries, and the trade off between essential spending and other family costs such as food, rent, mortgage payments, transport and childcare. The blue gas flame provides an immediate visual shorthand for domestic energy consumption, meter usage, tariff changes, supplier charges and the wider debate about affordability, fuel poverty and energy market volatility. This image is suitable for editorial use on stories about gas bills, household finances, inflation, consumer hardship, personal budgeting, winter heating worries, energy affordability, Scottish consumers, British utility costs, and the continuing impact of higher fuel prices on ordinary homes. It also works as a broader symbol of economic stress, financial resilience, money management, cash flow pressure, and the challenge for low and middle income households trying to balance essential utilities against stagnant wages and wider rising living costs. The Scottish notes make the picture especially useful for regional coverage involving devolved policy, Scottish consumers and the domestic effect of energy pricing. Because the money is shown in physical form rather than on a screen, the image underlines the kitchen table reality of budgeting, where higher utility charges are felt as pounds and pence leaving the household purse. It is well suited to reporting on arrears, debt advice, payment support, winter resilience, fuel poverty, and the real world impact of gas price rises on everyday family finances.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DC7P - National Dried Milk was a roller-dried powdered, full-cream milk fortified with vitamin D. It was intended for feeding to children at a time of milk rationing. It was also convenient for mothers. It freed them up from breast-feeding at a time when women had to go man the factories for the war effort. At first, it was available only to children under 1 year of age
later 2 years.
The National Dried Milk scheme had been announced by the fall of 1940
by then, physicians were debating how it should best be served to infants and whether full-cream was indeed the best for them.
The storage and distribution of National Dried Milk across the country was contracted out to a company called SPD. You needed ration coupons to purchase it with, and could only get it at chemists (i.e. pharmacies.) There was a proviso, though, which housewives learned to watch for: once the tin at the store was past the Not for consumption after... date, it could be sold to anyone, off-ration, providing a windfall bonanza to the lucky shopper.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYPFFE -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M1F - OLD STAMP OFFICE CLOSE
This close gets its name as it once housed the Government Stamp Office until 1821. The Royal Bank was also located here from 1727 to 1753.
It also contained the home of The Countess of Eglinton and her seven beautiful daughters. They family would set out to attend dancing assemblies in Assembly Close each in their own guilded Sedan Chair.
The poet Allan Ramsay dedicated The Gentle Shepherd to her.
The close also housed a Tavern called 'Fortune's Tavern' and at one time 'Ship's Tavern' Where levées were held by the General Assembly's Lord High Commissioner of 1754.
Flora McDonald, associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie attended boarding school here.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M1G - OLD STAMP OFFICE CLOSE
This close gets its name as it once housed the Government Stamp Office until 1821. The Royal Bank was also located here from 1727 to 1753.
It also contained the home of The Countess of Eglinton and her seven beautiful daughters. They family would set out to attend dancing assemblies in Assembly Close each in their own guilded Sedan Chair.
The poet Allan Ramsay dedicated The Gentle Shepherd to her.
The close also housed a Tavern called 'Fortune's Tavern' and at one time 'Ship's Tavern' Where levées were held by the General Assembly's Lord High Commissioner of 1754.
Flora McDonald, associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie attended boarding school here.
