17 photos taking you back to Edinburgh in 1980 (Part 3)
It was out with the old and in with the new at the start of the eighties as Edinburgh began to embrace a digital future and wave farewell to the industries, infrastructure and technologies of yesteryear.
Edinburgh city centre was positively teeming with people keen to welcome home local sprinter Allan Wells, who was fresh from securing Olympic gold in Moscow for the 100m dash.
Also in sport, Hearts, having been relegated for the first time in their history, won the First Division at the first attempt and were back in the top flight by the summer.
Generous Evening News readers donated money towards equipping Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary with a Flying Squad ambulance.
And Edinburgh Castle’s historic Mons Meg cannon was removed and sent to Armadale steel works for testing.
Generous Evening News readers donated money towards equipping Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary with a Flying Squad ambulance.
5. Indian Cavalry Club opening 1980
The proprietors of The Indian Cavalry Club, a new Indian restaurant in Atholl Place Edinburgh, opened it with a guard of honour on horseback in July 1980.
Photo: Ian Brand
6. Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade 1980
A pipe band leads a giant papier mache lion conductor in the Evening News Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade, August 1980.
Photo: Jack Crombie
7. Jack Milroy and Rikki Fulton 1980
Scottish entertainers Jack Milroy and Rikki Fulton with some of the woodland creature characters from Babes in the Wood, the Christmas pantomime at the Kings theatre in Edinburgh, december 1980.
Photo: Ian Brand
8. Mons Meg taken for testing 1980
Mons Meg, the cannon from Edinburgh Castle, was removed and taken to the North British Steel Groups works at Armadale for testing in January 1980.
Photo: Bill Newton