Edinburgh Retro: 17 amazing picture of Capital shops in the early 1970s from butchers to junk shops

Many of the shops which used to line the city’s streets have disappeared and some new ones have arrived.

But these fascinating pictures selected from the Evening News archive will transport you back in time and allow you to feel something of the atmosphere of Edinburgh in the early 1970s.

Scroll through these old black and white pictures to conjure up an idea of the city five decades ago.