Summer in Edinburgh: Here are 22 fascinating pictures of Capital residents enjoying sunny weather in the 1950s and 1960s

With temperatures continuing to rise, the forecast is for warm an sunny weather in Edinburgh over the next week.

We don’t always get the best summers in Scotland, but when the blue skies do appear we certainly know how to enjoy them.

And a dip into the Edinburgh Evening News archives suggests that this is nothing new.

Here are 22 pictures of people enjoying the Edinburgh sunshine from over half a century ago.

17. Chilling

Youngsters Gordon Macpherson and Neill MacPherson eating ice cream at an ice cream van in Princes Street in August 1961. Photo: Unknown

Boys in the paddling pool at St Margaret's Loch in Holyrood Park in July 1959. Photo: Unknown

A mother and her daughters feeding the pigeons in Princes Street Gardens in the summer of 1959. Photo: Unknown

Sunbathers in Princes Street Gardens during a heatwave in 1963. Photo: Unknown