1975 will be remembered as a 12 months of destruction and devastation after fire all-but destroyed Kirkgate Market. Stallholders fled for their lives as the blaze swept through Europe’s largest covered market. The cause remains uncertain to this day - there were suggestions either of an electrical fault or an overturned paraffin lamp. It was also the year nine metro buses, worth £120,000, each had to be pushed to safety after a fire broke out at Cross Gates Carriage Works. Enjoy these photos, a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service, celebrating a year in the life of your city. READ MORE: 14 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1974 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Woodhouse
Woodhouse taken from Leeds University Engineering Department in Jun e 1975. Woodhouse Lane runs across in the foreground, with Spenceley Street on the right and Raglan Road leading off on the left. Volume One bookshop is seen in the centre in part of a block of derelict buildings due to be demolished. To the left of this is the Pack Horse public house. St. Mark's Church is seen in the background on the right while on the far left is the corner of Woodhouse Moor. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
8. Meanwood
Derelict buildings of Woodlands Dyeworks on Wood Lane shortly before demolition in July 1975. Known as Crowther's Mill and previously Rowley's Mill and Wood's Mill, there is believed to have been a mill on the site since 1601. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
9. Crossgates
An aerial view of Cross Gates Carriage Works on Manston Lane, the firm of Charles H. Roe. A small fire is being attended to by several engines in March 1975. Nine metro buses worth £120,000 each had to be pushed to safety. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Leeds city centre
An aerial view looking across the destruction caused by a fire in Kirkgate Market, seen in the direction of the Eastgate roundabout in December 1975. Around four acres of the site was destroyed in a blaze which took 110 fireman two hours to control. Most of the 1857 section of the market was destroyed although the 1904 frontage onto Vicar Lane was saved. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
11. East Ardsley
A group of children are pictured in front of Archer's 'the paper shop' on Main Street in July 1975. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
12. Leeds city centre
Late night shopping at Beaverbrooks jewellers in November 1975. | YPN Photo: YPN