The images focus on 2002, a year which featured education high on the list of issues for the town and its residents. A new primary school opened in LS27 while your YEP photographed a batch of new recruits at Bruntcliffe High School. Elsewhere a resident was left horrified after finding an unwanted visitor in a can of beans while another was in a wrangle council chiefs over a council tax bill query. Enjoy these photo memories charting 12 months in the life of Morley. READ MORE: Fabulous colour photos celebrate life in Morley during the 1960s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
![This is up and coming Morley band Sawthroat in December 2002. Pictured, from left, are Anthony Medd, Steven Ramsden, Karl Thompson and Craig Johnson.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIyNjcxMzUx.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
7. Morley in 2002
This is up and coming Morley band Sawthroat in December 2002. Pictured, from left, are Anthony Medd, Steven Ramsden, Karl Thompson and Craig Johnson.Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe
![Did you viusit here back in the day? The White Rose pub on Wide Lane in the town.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIyNjcxMzUy.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
8. Morley in 2002
Did you viusit here back in the day? The White Rose pub on Wide Lane in the town.
![Morley High School pupils were preparing to stage West Side Story in October 2002./](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIyNjcxMzUz.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
9. Morley in 2002
Morley High School pupils were preparing to stage West Side Story in October 2002./
![Maisy Dutton from Tingley gets her face painted by Bobbles the clown at Morley Carnival in June 2002.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIyNjcxMzU0.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
10. Morley in 2002
Maisy Dutton from Tingley gets her face painted by Bobbles the clown at Morley Carnival in June 2002.Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe
![Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane looks at a sample of pond water with students in the science department at Bruntcliffe High School in March 2002.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIyNjcxMzU1.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
11. Morley in 2002
Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane looks at a sample of pond water with students in the science department at Bruntcliffe High School in March 2002.Photo: Mel Hulme
![Peter Ridsdale and White Rose Centre manager Peter Cook join pupils from Morley High School and Seven Hills Primary School at the opening of a new study support centre in November 2002. Pictured, from left, are Scott Yules, Daniel Wilber, Lauren Morley, Jessica Fletcher, Lyndsy Hinks, Sam Warrington, Gemma Johnson and Liam Guy.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIyNjcxMzU2.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
12. Morley in 2002
Peter Ridsdale and White Rose Centre manager Peter Cook join pupils from Morley High School and Seven Hills Primary School at the opening of a new study support centre in November 2002. Pictured, from left, are Scott Yules, Daniel Wilber, Lauren Morley, Jessica Fletcher, Lyndsy Hinks, Sam Warrington, Gemma Johnson and Liam Guy.Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe