Sighthill Heritage in Pictures: 27 fascinating photos of the Edinburgh area in the 1950's and 1960s

Everything looked very different in Sighthill over 55 years ago.

Sighthill became a residential area of Edinburgh in the late 1930s, when the first homes were built on a site that had previously been fields.

Sighthill Industrial Estate soon arrived and included prefab housing alongside industrial premises (including Golden Wonder crisps and Burton biscuits), factories and a bus terminus.

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Over the years the industrial estate was slowly replaced and redeveloped into housing as part of a broader urban regenration drive.

For nearly five decades, the skyline of Western Edinburgh was dominated by four high-rise residential blocks, but the last of these was demolished in 2011, along with much of the low-rise council properties.

These were replaced with with the new Broomview housing development, which was completed in 2020.

The south of Sighthill, in comparison, remains largely unchanged from the late 1940s, with the housing largely made up of four-in-a-block cottage flats.

Here are 27 pictures from The Scotsman archive to take you back to the Sighthill of the 1950s and 1960s.

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