Many of Edinburgh’s most significant buildings have disappeared over the decades, raised to the ground during redevelopment schemes or destroyed by fire.
Scroll through our picture gallery to see 18 lost Edinburgh buildings that we wish were still standing today.
Do these old photos stir memories for you, and which building demolished during your lifetime do you miss most? Please let us know in the comments section.
5. Portobello Bathing Pool, Portobello
Having given joy to generations, Portobello Bathing Pool and its gorgeous art deco surrounds met with the wrecking ball in 1988. The pool, which dated from 1936, closed for the final time in 1978. Photo: Unknown
6. Maules department store, West End
West End of Princes Street in the late 19th century showing Maule's store. this stunning building was constructed in the late 19th century and replaced in 1935 for the current Johnnie Walker (formerly Binns, House of Fraser) building. Photo: UNKNOWN
7. Palace Cinema, Princes Street
The stunning Palace Cinema (pictured left) on Princes Street was popular among film-goers for several decades, but bit the dust in 1955 for an extension to the adjacent Woolworths building. Photo: Unknown
8. Parkers store, Bristo Street
Many of the buildings around Bristo Street in the Southside, including the striking, mock-Tudor Parkers department store, would disappear in an expansion of Edinburgh University in the late 1960s and early 70s. Photo: Alan Ledgerwood