Shops become familiar territory for anyone who visits them more than just occasionally. So although most of the shops featured in these fascinating pictures have now disappeared, they were once a regular part of many people’s everyday life.
Scroll through this selection from the Evening News archive and feel something of the atmosphere of Edinburgh in the early 1970s.
17. St Stephen Street
Locals at one of the junk shops in St Stephen Street Edinburgh in June 1971 | TSPL Photo: Ian Brand
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