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.
13. War memorial
The war memorial on North Bridge dedicated in 1906 to the men of the Edinburgh regiment of the King's Own Scottish Borderers who died in various campaigns in the 19th century. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
14. Window shopping at PTs
A Christmas window display in Patrick Thomson's - or PTs - on North Bridge, the premises now occupied by the Carlton Hotel. PTs became art of the House of Fraser in 1952 and rebranded as Arnotts in 1976, but the store closed in 1982. Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
15. Grants store closed
The exterior of Grants department store at the corner of North Bridge and the High Street Edinburgh in May 1983, soon after it closed. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
16. View from Duke of Wellington statue
Looking up North Bridge from behind the Duke of Wellington's statue in Princes Street, May 1986. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton