Edinburgh retro: 21 amazing photos of people at work in the early 1980s - from chimney sweep to shipyard worker

From chimney sweep to chocolate checker and shipyard worker to mole catcher, some of the jobs that kept people busy in Edinburgh in the early 1980s just don’t exist any more.

Here is a selection of fascinating photos chosen from the Evening News archive, showing people at work in factories, shops, foundry, fields, offices and elsewhere in the early 1980s.

Scroll through the pictures and get a feel for what working life in and around the Capital was like four decades ago.

Scroll through the pictures and get a feel for what working life in and around the Capital was like four decades ago.

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5. Mole catcher

Jackie Marshall, mole catcher at the village of Torphichen in West Lothian, with a handful of mole traps in November 1980. | TSPL Photo: Ian Porteous

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6. Glass engraver

Glass engraver Alison Kinnaird at work in her Edinburgh studio in June 1980 | TSPL Photo: George Smith

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7. Shipyard apprentice

An apprentice working in the control room at the Robb-Caledon shipyard in Leith, August 1980. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan

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8. Furniture restorer

Furniture restorer John Watt touches up the detail on an Adams fireplace with a paint brush in his studio in June 1980. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald

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