Sometimes our rose-coloured spectacles convince us that summers always used to be sunny and warm, but it wasn’t really the case.
Take a look through this selection of fascinating pictures from the Evening News archive and be transported back to the 1960s and 1970s. See how much things have changed over the last five or six decades. And be reminded there were some overcast and windy days back then too.

9. Washed out
Campers pack up to go home after being washed out by the summer rain at Little France campsite near Edinburgh in July 1978. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan

10. River dried up
Boys go looking for eels at St Bernard's Row after the Water of Leith dried up during the drought in July 1978. | TSPL Photo: Alex Brown

11. Sun reigns
Summer in Princes Street gardens in June 1979 - two Edinburgh ladies in the summer sunshine wearing rain-hats ... just in case. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell

12. Picnic time
Visitors having a picnic on the grass Royal Highland Show at Ingliston, Edinburgh, in June 1977. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan