Check out these incredible old pictures, showing Edinburgh as it looked in 1980.
We’ve had a rummage thgrough the photo archives of the Evening News to bring you 17 memories of Edinburgh life in 46 years ago.
Scroll through our photo gallery for a trip back in time – and please let us know your own memories in the comments section.

17. Motorbike leathers 1980
Boys in black leathers with their Honda motorbike in Edinburgh, May 1980. Photo: Albert Jordan

18. Former Grants site dump 1980
The site that formerly housed Grants department store in the High Street Edinburgh had become a rubbish dump and car park by September 1980. Photo: George Snith
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