April 18th is World Heritage Day –  a global celebration highlighting the significance of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns are one of five sites in Scotland officially recognised on Unesco’s World Heritage List.

There’s no better way to see how Edinburgh’s cultural and architectural landscape has changed than through images past and present on our own Capital Collections website.  A fascinating new online exhibition shows distinct changes in Edinburgh’s built environment. Step back into the 1960s and the 1990s with Dr Gordon Thompson’s record of Edinburgh.  Dr Thompson took photographs across the city in the 1960s and then returned some thirty years later to recapture the scene and his collections of images offer a unique and personal document of the city’s landscape.