Pasta Romagna’s Gilda Porcelli is also credited with helping create Leeds’s now booming cafe bar culture. Yet she failed to hit the high notes when she received a letter from council bosses in asking her to keep the noise down. This was 2001, a year which also featured shoppers seeing The Light for the first time with the opening of the leisure and retail complex in the city centre. Enjoy these photo memories, plucked 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. READ MORE: 26 Leeds publicans you may remember from the early 2000s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Leeds in 2001
Leisure and retail centre The Light opened in November 2001. Photo: Tony Johnson
14. Leeds in 2001
The naming ceremony taking place of 'Matthew Murray' 0-6-OST, number 1601 at Middleton Railway in September 2001. The locomotive was built in 1903 by Manning Wardle. It was acquired by the Middleton Railway on 31st January 1990. The railway was awarded the 'John Coiley Award for Locomotive Restoration' by the Heritage Railway Association. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
15. Leeds in 2001
Manston Towers in the process of demolition in January 2001. This block of flats located off Eastwood Lane was one of 10 that were demolished during the 2000s as part of a redevelopment scheme for the Swarcliffe housing estate. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
16. Leeds in 2001
Temporary plastic sheeting is stuck over windows on a GNER train, the 15.05pm from Leeds to Kings Cross in July 2001. The outer glass in five windows were smashed by stones and bricks thrown at the train by vandals in the Wakefield area. Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth
17. Leeds in 2001
Construction in progress of the BBC Big Screen in Millennium Square in June 2001. The screen shows coverage of BBC news, sport and events as well as items of local and community interest. A car is being suspended in front of it by a crane. In the background, right, are the recently built luxury apartments of Portland Place on Calverley Street. Photo: Derek Sedgwick
18. Leeds in 2001
The Roll of Honour beside the Temple Newsam War Memorial on Selby Road, listing casualties of the First World War. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net