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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9. In the lab
A look inside the Ethicon Suture Laboratories in Sighthill in March 1960. | TSPL
10. Players
Parkhead and Sighthill Ratepayer's Association present their latest play 'Cat Among The Pigeons' in November 1964. | TSPL
11. Festive fun
The OAP Club of Sighthill division of the British Red Cross at a Christmas Dinner in the Sighthill Health Centre in December 1964. | TSPL
12. Special guest
Lord Provost Duncan Weatherstone with Mr BC Butler, Minister for Canada, outside the Timber Showhouse at Sighthill in November 1964. | TSPL