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As a photographer with DC Thomson, Alex captured celebrations, drama and tragedies, and as a freelancer continued to record events that hit the local headlines<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Car accident, 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Start of Tay Road Bridge construction, 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Audience at the opening of the Tay Road Bridge, August 1966. At around 2,250 metres (1.4 miles),  the bridge is one of the longest road bridges in Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Scotscraig’s last day sailing, 1966.  The ‘Fifies’ were vessels that ferried people, goods and vehicles across the Tay for over 140 years. By 1966 there were 3 boats left, the B L Nairn, the Abercraig and the Scotscraig. They became redundant once the Tay Road Bridge opened<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Elizabeth, the Queen Mother meets the Black Watch by Loch Muick, 1964.
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Royal family at Braemar gathering, 1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Fire at Timex, 1960s. This shot was nominated for the World Press Photo Competition and appeared in their display of winning pictures in the Hague<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Fighting jute fire at Dura Works, 1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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SS Discovery, Victoria Dock. Built in Dundee for Scott and Shackleton’s Antarctic 1901 expedition, after a long career as a research and training ship, Discovery returned to Dundee in 1986<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Princess Margaret visits RAF Leuchars, nd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Flying Scotsman at Dundee, May 1964<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Some images dating from mid-1966 and earlier are potentially copyright of DC Thomson & Co Ltd where Alex was employed as a staff photographer.\u00a0All other images are copyright of Alex Coupar.\u00a0Audio is copyright University of Dundee Archive Services. Nothing to be reproduced without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a photographer with DC Thomson, Alex captured celebrations, drama and tragedies, and as a freelancer continued to record events that hit the local headlines Some images dating from mid-1966 and earlier are potentially copyright of DC Thomson & Co Ltd where Alex was employed as a staff photographer.\u00a0All other images are copyright of Alex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}