1996 was a 12 months which featured the triennial Maypole Festival at Barwick-in-Elmet in east Leeds. And in accordance with the time honoured custom, the maypole was successfully raised by the use of ropes and ladders and an enthusiastic crowd of villagers and visitors. As part of the Maypole Festival a gala was held in Hall Tower Fields with a procession of decorated floats led by the queens coach containing the new Maypole Queen Victoria Boyes. Elsewhere Queen Elizabeth II was in Leeds to open the Royal Armouries while your YEP was recognised for its fundraising efforts. Enjoy these photos, a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service, charting a year in the life of your city in the mid-1990s. READ MORE: 14 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1995 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds in 1996
Actress Una Stubbs, in a costume of Queen Elizabeth I, meets Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Leeds for the opening of the Royal Armouries museum in March 1996. Photo: Bruce Rollinson
8. Leeds in 1996
The "Golden Girls" team from Temple Moor School who were winners of the West Yorkshire Police Lifestyle competition. Pictured with PC Dave Schofield, from left, are Joanna Cuthbertson, Charlotte Sladek, Leanne Thompson, Gemma Appleyard and Amanda Wood. Photo: Roy Fox
9. Leeds in 1996
Yeadon's Devonshire Place, used as a car park. Shops on the left front onto the High Street. This is looking across the Town Hall Square, with Yeadon Town Hall to the right. The building in the centre is Yeadon library in what was formerly a branch of Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society - Co-op grocers. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Leeds in 1996
Window dressing at Harvey Nichols on Briggate. The backdrop is a London scene with St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey depicted. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
11. Leeds in 1996
Did you enjoy a drink here back in the day? The Bay Horse pub on Parkside Road in Meanwood. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
12. Leeds in 1996
Bramley Library on Hough Lane, which opened in 1927. Terraced housing on St. Peter's Mount can be seen on the left. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net