17 photos to transport you back to Edinburgh in 1985, including dramatic gun shop siege
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.
Eric Miller was later jailed for 34 months.
5. 603 Squadron
Attending the rededication of the Spitfire outside RAF Turnhouse were l-r: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Air Vice-Marshal John Tetley, Edinburgh Lord Provost John Mackay and Ian Ritchie (ex-wartime member of RAF 603 (Edinburgh) Squadron. Photo: Denis Straughan
6. City Mission
Residents at the City Mission (St Leonards hostel), a homeless shelter for men in Edinburgh, chatting in December 1985. Photo: Joe Steele
7. Stand off
A man shut himself in the Field and Stream gun shop in Montrose Terrace Edinburgh, November 1985. By late evening the man had given himself up and was taken away in an ambulance. Photo: Hamish Campbell
8. Waverley Market decorations
Edinburgh shopping centre Waverley Market decorated with Christmas lights for shoppers in December 1985. Photo: Albert Jordan