Edinburgh Retro: 26 fascinating photos of Capital shops in the 1960s

Shopping has changed a lot in the past six decades - there was no online ordering in the 1960s and not many out-of-town shopping centres either.

Many of the shops in the pictures here here will no longer exist - in some cases, the goods they sold will no longer be things people buy.

But it’s fascinating to look back and see what shops there were 60 years ago.

Scroll through these old photographs selected from the Evening News archive and get a flavour of what it was like going to the shops in the Edinburgh of the 1960s.

5. Patrick Thomson's window

A man laden with PTs carrier bags looking in Patrick Thomson's men's clothes shop window in Edinburgh, October 1967. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait

Exterior of George Boyd & Co, ironmongers in Annandale Street Edinburgh - March 1966 | TSPL Photo: Ian Porteous

The trade counter at George Boyd & Co, ironmongers in Annandale Street Edinburgh in March 1966 | TSPL Photo: Ian Porteous

People queue outside shop in the Lawnmarket to collect Hogmanay refreshments, 1966 | Supplied Photo: Supplied