This selection of photographs from the Evening News archives offers a fascinating insight into the world of employment 50 years ago - from Newhaven fishwives to Monktonhall miners and night watchmen to newspaper librarians.
There’s a glimpse of the old fruitmarket at Chesser, boat building at Cockenzie, and a workman preparing Portobello’s open-air pool, not to mention sorting the mail before mechanisation and learning to cope with decimal money.
Scroll through these pictures and get a flavour of what working life was like in Edinburgh back then.
6. Inside the GPO
Post Office workers sort out the mail as it comes down the segregator conveyor belt at the GPO in Edinburgh, June 1970. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
7. Newhaven fishwife
Newhaven fishwife Betty Millar with her basket in October 1971. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
8. Off with his statue
Workmen gently lower the statue of King Charles II onto a removals lorry in Parliament Square Edinburgh, February 1972. | TSPL Photo: Ian Brand