Growing up is sometimes hard to do, but there’s often a lot of fun along the way.
These old photos selected from the Evening News archive offer a glimpse of what it was like to be a youngster in Edinburgh 40 years ago - including pictures of some of the city’s most popular places at the time, like Gorgie City Farm and Little Marco’s.
Scroll through and get a flavour of a Capital childhood in the mid-1980s.
37. Lolobal demonstration
Lisa Coupar (right) and her young friends demonstrate the new Lolobal, an inflatable ball with a foot platform, at the Waverley market shopping centre on Princes Street Edinburgh, April 1986. | TSPL Photo: Joe Steele
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