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.

33. Mock battle
Pupils of St Mary's College of Music in Edinburgh staged a Cavaleirs v Roundheads mock battle for their school pageant in January 1975. | TSPL Photo: Denis Sraughan
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