Most of the shops featured in this selection of photographs from the Evening News archives have long since disappeared, but they will bring back memories for some and give a glimpse for others of what life was like in Edinburgh nearly 50 years ago.
The pictures convey something of the atmosphere of the Capital n the 1970s - and they are not just shots of everyday shops; there’s one selling bowling balls and also the famous Madame Doubtfire’s junk shop.
5. Edinburgh Wholefoods, Cockburn Street
Interior of the Edinburgh Wholefoods shop in Cockburn Street Edinburgh, December 1978. | TSPL Photo: Ha,ish Campbell
6. Davison Ltd., Frederick Street
Davison Ltd., menswear shop, Frederick Street, Edinburgh. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
7. Guarding the turkeys
Tucked up in his sleeping bag South Queensferry butcher Francie MacFadzean guarded his Christmas turkeys by sleeping in the shop with an air rifle by his side in December 1978. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
8. Mackay's, Blackfriars Street
Mackay's shop in Blackfriars Street Edinburgh made and sold bowling balls. Roland Scott works on an engraving machine in April 1979. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood