Currently on show at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is the small exhibition The Living Collection - The People behind the Plants. I saw it today and was taken with these photographs of gardeners on the RBGE site at Inverleith between 1910 and 1920. Note the collars and ties - how formal compared to their modern counterparts' sweatshirts and fleeces.
Given the approximate date of the pictures, I wonder how many of the young men we see here went off to war in 1914, and how many did not return to this most peaceful of places.
