FILM star Tyrone Power took on a different kind of role when he arrived in Glasgow in 1955.
The actor, known for his swashbuckling roles and romantic movies, was in the city to present new equipment to Ruchill Hospital.
The hospital specialised in the treatment of infectious disease and the equipment handed over by Tyrone was funded by cash from the Roosevelt Memorial (Polio) Fund, a voluntary Scottish-American organisation which funded the after-care of polio patients. All the money raised was spent on Scottish victims of the disease.
It was named after Franklin D Roosevelt, who suffered from polio yet still served three terms as the US President.
Items the cash was used for included an £800 bath for Ruchill Hospital, £90 for a muscle-testing machine at Mearnskirk Hospital and Glasgow school clinics, and a £700 blood analysis instrument.
The money was also used to buy clothes and toys for crippled children of poor parents.
Thanks to immunisation, diseases such as polio have disappeared in the UK, but can still be found in some other countries.
As for Ruchill Hospital, that has also gone. It closed in 1998.
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