These fascinating photos of the Capital’s streets in the 1970s have been selected rom the Evening News archive to illustrate just how different things were back then.
The cars are different from today’s - and they’re allowed to drive along Princes Street. There are parking meters on Waverley Bridge. And Market Street looks even busier than it is today.
Scroll through the pictures to get a glimpse of everyday life out and about on the roads of Edinburgh five decades ago.
29. Tollcross traffic lights.
Cars at the traffic lights at Tollcross Edinburgh, November 1979 | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
30. Balerno Main Street
Women with prams and buggies chatting in the middle of Balerno Main Street, due to become traffic free/pedestrianised in November 1979. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
31. Holyrood Road.
An elderly man trying to cross Holyrood Road,at the foot of the Pleasance Edinburgh with a line of cars stuck in a traffic jam at the lights in September 1979. | TSPL Photo: Bill Newton