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.
9. Terracotta Warriors
Yuan Zhong Yi was the Chinese archaeologist who excavated the Terracotta Army/Emperor's Warriors figures, which were found guarding the tomb of China's first emperor Shihuangdi. Mr Yi oversees a bubble-wrapped horse being opened at the City Arts Centre in Edinburgh in September 1985. Photo: Ian Brand
10. Cresser's brush shop
Stephen Gilhooly, owner of Robert Cresser (The Brush Shop) a specialised ironmongers in Victoria Street Edinburgh. Picture taken December 1985. Photo: George Smith
11. Liberton hospital
Exterior of Liberton hospital in Edinburgh, scene of an outbreak of food poisoning in December 1985. Photo: Hamish Campbell
12. Vinyl countdown
The Other Record Shop moved from the High Street to Princes Street in Edinburgh in December 1985. A man browses the 12" singles. Photo: Bill Newton