No. 4 in the series, 'Old Photos of Scotland', this time having a look at the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. It is often the people portrayed in old photos that make the images memorable, and I have included a couple of absolutely cracking old photos where the people in them are undoubtedly the stars.

Not a lot of folk know that Edinburgh's Royal Mile is approximately the length of a Scots mile, a measurement no longer in use and which was longer than an English mile. Starting at Edinburgh Castle, it leaves the castle's esplanade and heads downhill into Castlehill then Lawnmarket, before entering the High Street. At the old town wall the High Street becomes Canongate and heads further downhill by ancient mercat crosses, sixteenth century town houses and the old tolbooth, before ending at Abbey Strand by the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Along the way we will take a fascinating peep inside John Knox House around 1900, look at images from the early days of photography, and immerse ourselves in the cobbled streets of old Edinburgh.

Sit back and relax. This is Edinburgh's Royal Mile in the old days, as you've probably never seen it.