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1937 in Scotland

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{{Year in Scotland| 1937 }}

Events from the year 1937 in Scotland.

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Events

  • 17 April – A crowd of 149,415 spectators officially (and at least 20,000 more unofficially) watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 3-1 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, an all-time European record for an international match.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=The Scots Independent |access-date=2014-07-21 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |archive-date=23 May 2014}}{{cite book|first1=Forrest|last1=Robertson|first2=David|last2=Ross|title=The First 100 Years of Hampden|publisher=First Press Publishing|location=Glasgow|isbn=1-901603-18-0|page=72}}
  • 5 July – The rival operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railway routes between London and Scotland introduce streamlined express passenger trains hauled by steam locomotives: the London and North Eastern Railway's The Coronation between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley{{cite book|author=London & North Eastern Railway|title=The Coronation: the first streamline train, King's Cross for Scotland|year=1937|url=http://locoyard.com/2013/07/10/coronation-1937-lner-brochure-courtesy-of-nick-littlewood/|access-date=2014-08-20}} and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's Coronation Scot between Euston and Glasgow Central.{{cite web|title=The streamlined symbol of 1930s luxury|date=2009-05-01|url=http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2009/May/thestreamlinedsymbol.aspx|publisher=National Railway Museum|location=York|access-date=2014-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821044455/http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2009/May/thestreamlinedsymbol.aspx|archive-date=21 August 2014|url-status=dead}}
  • 16 September – 10 young Irish potato harvesters are killed in a bothy fire at Kirkintilloch.{{cite web|title=Ten Perish In Farm Fire Tragedy|work=RTÉ Archives|publisher=RTÉ|url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/category/disasters/2017/0906/902699-kirkintilloch-disaster/|year=1987|accessdate=2021-12-21}}
  • 16 October – Jimmy McGrory plays his last match with Celtic F.C., achieving a United Kingdom record of 550 goals scored during his senior career.{{citation|first=John|last=McManus|title=Jimmy McGrory|series=Lives and Times|work=The Scotsman|url=http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1018&id=1575302006|date=28 October 2006|access-date=2013-05-13}}
  • 4 December – The first issue of children's comic The Dandy, including the character Desperate Dan, is published by Dundee-based publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.
  • 10 December – Castlecary rail crash: an express on the Edinburgh to Glasgow line collides into the rear of a local train standing at Castlecary in the snow, due primarily to a signalman's error; thirty-five people are killed.{{cite web|title=Accident at Castlecary on 10th December 1937|work=Railways Archive|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=104|access-date=2014-07-21}}
  • Hydroelectricity scheme of Galloway Water Power Company commences operation.{{cite book|first=W. R.|last=Kermack|title=19 Centuries of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Johnston|year=1944|page=93}}
  • Nigel Nicolson purchases the uninhabited Shiant Isles from fellow writer Compton Mackenzie.
  • The National Trust for Scotland acquires its first part of the site of the Battle of Culloden.
  • Among the definitive coins of the United Kingdom issued for the new reign are shillings carrying a Scottish crest.
  • A. G. Macdonell publishes My Scotland.

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  • August – the film The Edge of the World is released. Directed by Michael Powell, it dramatises the depopulation of the Scottish islands (based on the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930) and was largely filmed on Foula in Shetland.{{cite web |title=BFI Screenonline: Edge of the World, The (1937) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/459211/index.html#:~:text=Powell%20based%20his%20script%20on,Foula%2C%20in%20the%20Shetland%20Isles. |website=www.screenonline.org.uk |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=23 June 2024}}
  • A. J. Cronin's medical novel The Citadel is published.{{cite web|url=http://www.ournhsscotland.com/history/birth-nhs-scotland/expectant-public|title=An expectant public: 1948–2008 - 60 years of the NHS|year=2008|work=Birth of NHS in Scotland|publisher=Scottish Government|access-date=2019-11-14}}
  • Neil M. Gunn's novel Highland River is published in Edinburgh and becomes the first work of fiction to win the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year award.{{cite web|first=Stevie|last=Marsden|title=The Saltire Society Literary Awards Test of Time|publisher=Saltire Society|location=Edinburgh|year=2016|url=https://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/Downloads/80th/Literary_Test_of_Time_essay.pdf|access-date=2020-11-23}}
  • Robert McLellan's play Jamie the Saxt is first performed, in Glasgow, starring Duncan Macrae.{{cite web |title=Jamie the Saxt |url=https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pressjamiethesaxt.pdf |website=finboroughtheatre.co.uk |publisher=Finborough Theatre |access-date=24 June 2024}}

See also

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