Wetherspoon pub to open in Edinburgh's Empire Bingo - here's how it has changed over the years

Inside the Mecca Empire bingo hall in Nicolson Street Edinburgh, October 1979

Following the news that the historic site is set to be converted into a huge Wetherspoons pub, here's a look back at it former uses over the decades, from theatre to adult cinema to bingo hall.

Originally called La Scala Electric Theatre when it opened in 1912, by the mid-1970s the building had changed to the Classic Cinema and began to show adult films

Charred and water-damaged fittings from the Classic Cinema lie in Nicolson Street after a fire in April 1979

Nicolson Street as it looked in the 1960s