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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21. No parking
Residents were angry that due to commuters they couldn't get their cars parked in Marchmont Road in February 1987. Photo: George Smith
23. On the piste
Falkirk student David Strang found skis were the best way to get to his job after snow hit Edinburgh in January 1987. Photo: Hamish Campbell
24. Hard at work
An old lady clearing the snow from the pavement at Burdiehouse Edinburgh in January 1987. Photo: Hamish Campbell