17 photos taking you back to Edinburgh in 1984 (Part 3)
By David McLean
Published 20th Nov 2020, 16:45 BST
Updated 10th Jun 2021, 20:42 BST
Bang in the middle of the Thatcher era, 1984 was a time of economic upheaval, but it wasn't quite the dystopian future dreamt up by writer George Orwell. We’ve rummaged through the Evening News archives to bring you 17 more memories of the Capital in that year.
We’ve had a good rummage through the Evening News archives to bring you 17 more memories of the Capital in 1984.
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13. Cone but not forgotten
The Caprice ice cream stand in the new Waverley Market on Edinburgh's Princes Street, November 1984 Photo: Bill Newton & Bill Stout
Three Scotmid horses due to retire when the company stops milk horse doorstep deliveries in December 1984 - l-r: Jimmy Quinn and Trigger, R O'Conner and Billy and Jimmy Cole and Nippy. Photo: George Smith
Looking down on the gap-site at East Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, previously the site of the Palladium theatre. Picture taken December 1984. Photo: George Smith
Mikhail Gorbachev visited Scotland in his role of Chairman for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Soviet Union in December 1984. His Police motorcycle escort wait for Mr Gorbachev to leave Bute House in Charlotte Square. Photo: Hamish Campbell Jack Crombie
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