Characters from The Jungle Book meet the young patients at the Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children in November 1975 as part of the Evening News Charity Appeal.placeholder image
Characters from The Jungle Book meet the young patients at the Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children in November 1975 as part of the Evening News Charity Appeal. | TSPL

Edinburgh Retro: 33 fascinating pictures of growing up in the Capital in the mid-1970s

There were sand castle competitions on the beach, sports days, fireworks and even a visit from Doctor Who.

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.

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