ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 4-7-2005

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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	P I C T U R E S O F T H E W E E K 4 -7 - 2 0 0 5

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Edinburgh in 1985 is the subject of this week's picture set. The city is currently the focus of attention because of G8 and Live8 and it will be in the news again in August during the annual arts festival, now the largest such event in Europe. There's nothing new about the festival and the Scottish capital has long been known as the "Athens of the North". But twenty years ago it was a much quieter, slower, more inward-looking place and it seemed a very long way away from London. The Scottish Parliament didn't exist, there were old-fashioned department stores on Princes Street and Leith was a run-down dock area. The Georgian houses of the New Town have always been prosperous and respectable, but the old money of Edinburgh avoided the headlines. The city will never be brash and flash, but it's very different nowadays from the dour days of the mid 1980s.

The National Monument on Calton Hill (image 173-6b)

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