Edinburgh Retro: 21 fascinating photos of people at work in the mid-1980s - from directory enquiries to trucks at Bathgate

From testing TVs at Mitsubishi in Haddington and answering directory enquiries in Edinburgh to shipbuilding in Leith or making trucks at Bathgate, many of the jobs which people were doing every day in the mid-1980s just don’t exist any more.

Here are some fascinating pictures selected from the Evening News archives, showing people at work in and around Edinburgh 40 years ago.

Scroll through the old photos and get a nostalgic reminder of what working life in the Capital was like four decades ago.

Scroll through the old photos and get a nostalgic reminder of what working life in the Capital was like four decades ago.

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13. Testing TV sets, Mitsubishi

A woman tests and adjusts the colour alignment on television sets at Mitsubishi electronics factory in Haddington, May 1984. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell

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14. Workmen in High Street

Workmen with planks of wood and a pile of bricks as construction continues in the High Street Edinburgh, August 1985. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton

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15. Printing works, Tanfield

Morrison & Gibb printing works in Tanfield Inverleith Row in Edinburgh, September 1985. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan

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16. Stockbrokers get ready for 'Big Bang'

Edinburgh stockbrokers Bell, Lawrie Ltd prepared for 'Big Bang' when the world's stock market was computerised in October 1986. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald

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