Events making the headlines in 1987 included the Black Monday stock market crash, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Margaret Thatcher being elected UK Prime Minister for the third time, and the King's Cross fire.
On television viewers were tuning into the first episodes of ‘Tutti Frutti’, ‘Blackadder the Third’ and ‘ChuckleVision’, while at the cinema ‘The Living Daylights’, ‘Beverley Hills Cop II’, ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ and ‘Platoon’ saw film fans queue around the block.
In the music charts Rick Astley had the best-selling single of the year with ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, followed by ‘Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now’ by Starship, Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Sombody (Who Loves Me)’, ‘You Win Again’ by The Bee Gees, and T’Pau’s ‘China in Your Hand’.
It was also the year that future tennis champ Andy Murray was born and the first of Ian Rankin’s hugely successful Edinburgh-set Inspector Rebus novels, Knots and Crosses, was published.
And there was plenty going on in Edinburgh, including a fair number of famous faces, a snow storm and Edinburgh Festival fun.
Here are 30 pictures to take you back to Scotland’s Capital in 1987.
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9. Battling the elements
A man struggles against the snow in Market Street in January 1987. Photo: Hamish Campbell
10. Dressed to kill
Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Richard Sissons, known as 'Kit and the Widow', were playing the Cafe Royal during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1987. Photo: Albert Jordan
11. Tennis aces
Gabriela Sabatini and Lisa Bonder share the trophy at the Scottish grasscourt championship at Craiglockhart Lawn Tennis Club in June 1987. Photo: Ian Brand
12. Invasive species
A little boy stands next to Giant Hogweed growing on the banks of the Water of Leith near Chesser House in July 1987. Photo: Stan Warburton