17 photos taking you back to Edinburgh in 1985 (Part 2)
Nineteen-eighty-five was a year of grand openings and great change in the city of Edinburgh.
First up is the Emperor’s Warriors exhibition at the City Art Centre, which attracted tens of thousands of people over the summer and is still talked about to this day.
Over at Abbeyhill, there was a firearms incident. A police raid on the shop Field and Stream in Montrose Terrace led to the owner firing a shot in an eight-hour stand off. The owner was later jailed for 34 months.
Meanwhile, at The Scotsman offices on North Bridge, it was all change. Staff bid farewell to long time editor Eric B Mackay and also waved goodbye to the old linotype machines of yesteryear, which were lifted on to a flat bed truck and consigned to the history books.
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5. Cameron Toll
Exterior and car park of Edinburgh shopping centre Cameron Toll in December 1985.
Photo: Bill Stout
6. Cresser's brush shop
Stephen Gilhooly, owner of Robert Cresser (The Brush Shop) a specialised ironmongers in Victoria Street Edinburgh. Picture taken December 1985.
Photo: George Smith
7. Stand off
A man shut himself in the Field and Stream gun shop in Montrose Terrace Edinburgh, November 1985. By late evening the man had given himself up and was taken away in an ambulance.
Photo: Hamish Campbell
8. New Argos
One of the first customers at the new Argos catalogue shop on North Bridge, Edinburgh, just opened in September 1985.
Photo: Bill Newton