Leeds city centre: 22 photo gems take you back to 1956
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Hunslet: Photo gems take you back to the south Leeds suburb in the early 1960s
Riley Street Fisheries helped feed a community back in the day. It is one of 16 photo gems which turn back the clock to 1961 and provide a fascinating insight into life around LS10 during the year. Washing on lines hung across streets sand tin baths pushed up against a wall help foster a sense of a period of time which memories cannot erase. Local landmarks also featured include the Albert Glass Works and The Queen Hotel one of 52 public houses in Hunslet by the late 1930s as well as familiar...
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19 of the best photos take you back to Leeds in 1995
They chart a year in the life of your city in 1995, a 12 months which featured its fair share of change and challenges. as the mobile phone revolution really took off to become something that everyone could afford to have. The gallery focuses life around the city centre with shopping and travel providing a focus before heading out to the suburbs with Armley and Morley among those to be featured. The images are a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of the David Atkinson...
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18 of the best photos take you back to Leeds in 1964
Music fans flocked to Vallances on New Market Street to meet pop group The Bachelors. They had flown into Leeds Bradford Airport from Blackpool where they had been performing for the summer season on the Central Pier. A crowd of several hundred fans came to see them on their visit to the city centre and there were four police constables on duty. This was 1964, a year which also saw department store Schofields staged a zoo exhibition to attract families. Elsewhere demolition work of the Royal...