A tourist's eye view of Edinburgh as it was in the early 1970s has been unearthed and made available online.
The fascinating home video was filmed on Kodachrome Super 8mm by a tourist and shows various familiar sights around the capital, including Holyrood Palace, the Royal Mile and Princes Street.
Mostly captured from the passenger seat of a moving car, the film, which was uploaded to YouTube earlier this month by the Picture House channel, begins in Fife where we are taken across an eerily quiet Forth Road Bridge and into Edinburgh on what looks to be a misty morning.
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There's a noticeable gap in the film as the car passes by the bridge toll point, which many motorists will recall was in place until the 2000s. There is also a distinct lack of signage for the City Bypass, which was still years away from being constructed.
In the next scene, our tourist friends have arrived within the grounds of Holyrood Palace, where - rather interestingly - they were able to park their car, which looks to be a 1960s Sunbeam Rapier.
Following a wander along the Royal Mile, the visitors take a drive along the full length of Princes Street (yep, you could actually do that in the early 1970s), which looks to be far less congested than it is today - despite the fact cars were permitted to drive alongside double-decker buses and taxis on both sides of the famous thoroughfare.
From the vantage point of the Sunbeam's passenger seat, we can make out a number of well-known shops from yesteryear which are sure to stir a few memories for those of a certain age.
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While the uploader is unsure of precisely when the footage was filmed, we are able to narrow it down to 1972 thanks to one scene showing the Floral Clock in West Princes Street Gardens.
The timepiece famously commemorates a different event or anniversary every year, and in 1972 it marked the 150th anniversary of HM Coastguard, Air Sea Rescue, which we can easily make out in the film.
The footage is especially poignant for those who grew up in Edinburgh in the 1970s, with Brian Tame commenting on YouTube: "What did we know then that we don't know now. Beautiful video. Thanks for posting."
The film concludes with a shot of a busy Ross Bandstand where scores of spectators are watching a pipe band perform in the sunshine.
To view the footage in its entirety, please click here.
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