Here’s are some fascinating pictures selected from the Evening News archive, looking back at North Bridge over the decades.
The entrance to North Bridge from Princes Street is, of course marked on one side by the large Balmoral Hotel, formerly the North British Hotel, and on the other by what was the GPO building and is now Waverley Gate.
As well as the Evening News and The Scotsman, North Bridge has been home to some of Edinburgh’s major department stores. And its exposed position means it has also seen plenty of weather - from fog to snow to gales.
Scroll through and see what else one of our most familiar roads has been through over the years.
5. Jennie Lee opens Steps art exhibition
Labour MP and Minister for the Arts Jennie Lee - widow of Nye Bevan - opens The Scotsman bookjacket exhibition and Steps Art Exhibition at North Bridge in August 1967. | TSPL
6. Buses in a blizzard
Buses struggle through the blizzard on North Bridge during a snow storm in Edinburgh in April 1968. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait
7. The Scotsman offices
The Scotsman was headquartered at its imposing offices on North Bridge for almost a century and the Evening News for nearly 40 years before the papers moved to a new base in Holyrood Road in 2021 and the old building was converted into a hotel, which adopted 'The Scotsman' name. | TSPL
8. State visit
Queen Elizabeth II and King Carl Gustav of Sweden in a procession up North Bridge during his state visit to Britain in July 1975. | TSPL Photo: Dick Ewart