It’s said that certain smells can elicit waves of nostalgia, taking you back to a specific time and place in the past.
That’s especially true in Edinburgh, the city famously referred to as Auld Reekie, where generations of us grew up sucking in all manner of industrial odours back in the day.
During much of the 20th century the capital’s commercial interests revolved around banks, books, biscuits and beer, and it was the manufacture of the latter three things that lent certain districts of Edinburgh their own unique aroma.
