17 photos to transport you back to Edinburgh in 1985, including dramatic gun shop siege
Nineteen-eighty-five was a year of grand openings and great change in Scotland’s capital city
At Abbeyhill, in the east of Edinburgh, there was a dramtic firearms incident.
A police raid on the shop Field and Stream in Montrose Terrace led to the owner firing a shot in an eight-hour stand off.
Eric Miller was later jailed for 34 months.
Judge Lord Bannatyne condemned the pensioner’s “cavalier attitude” and lack of co-operation during his sentencing at the High Court in Perth.
But the judge made an “exceptional circumstances” exemption to the normal mandatory five-year sentence for possessing a gun because the weapon was more than 100 years old, heavily corroded and the trigger no longer worked.
Elsewhere, there was the Emperor’s Warriors exhibition at the City Art Centre, which attracted tens of thousands of people over the summer and is still talked about to this day.
Take a look through our picture gallery, and be transported back to 1985.
1. Roaring Twenties
First Year history pupils from George Heriots school in Edinburgh, dressed in vintage clothing from the Royal Museum of Scotland in December 1985. One girl in a 1920s 'flapper' dress dances the Charleston. Photo: Joe Steele
2. Out with the old...
The old linotype machines were loaded on to the back of a lorry outside the North Bridge offices of the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh, December 1985. Photo: Bill Newton
3. City Mission
Residents at the City Mission (St Leonards hostel), a homeless shelter for men in Edinburgh, chatting in December 1985. Photo: Joe Steele
4. Cameron Toll
Exterior and car park of Edinburgh shopping centre Cameron Toll in December 1985. Photo: Bill Stout