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.
21. Doctor Who drops in
Tom Baker - TV's Dcotor Who - with children at John Menzies bookshop in Princes Street Edinburgh in September 1975. | TSPL Photo: David Liddle
22. Check mates
Boroughmuir third year pupils Linda Hood, Wendy Campbell, Andrew Hendry, Angela McGuire, Norman Jones and Janice Farquhar with a chess set made and painted for ex-prisoners in Edinburgh in March 1974. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton
23. Feeding the leopard
Nicola and Andrew, children of Edinburgh Zoo's new Animal Unit head D A Clarke hand-feeding a young leopard from a bottle in July 1975. | TSPL Photo: Ian Brand
24. Inside the Play Bus
Toddlers playing in the sand inside the Edinburgh Social Work's Play Bus (a kind of mobile nursery) in May 1975 | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton