Here’s a fascinating collection of pictures selected fro the Evening News archives of how youngsters enjoyed themselves in the mid-1970s. It wasn’t all fun though - as one picture reminds us, children were sometimes living in poor housing conditions in these days too.
Scroll through the old photos and get a gimpse of life as it was in Edinburgh 50 years ago.
13. Punch and Judy show
An ice-cream man gives a Punch & Judy show to a young child in the High Street Edinburgh in October 1974. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
14. Damp housing
Toddler Steven Young shows the damp patch and fungus growing on his bedroom wall in a house at Wester Hailes in December 1974 | TSPL Photo: George Smith
15. Academy anniversary
Edinburgh Academy pupils play a game of 'Hailes' on the school's 150th anniversary in November 1974. | TSPL Photo: Jack Crombie
16. Babes the Wood audition
Children queue for the Babes in the Wood pantomime audition at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh in October 1974. Director Clive Perry and the Howard & Wyndham casting director put them through their paces. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan