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
19. Leeds in 2001
Fire devastated Crawshaw School at Pudsey in July 2001. Photo: Mel Hulme
20. Leeds in 2001
Do you remember Babylon on York Place in the city centre? Pictured in March 2001. Photo: Justin Lloyd
21. Leeds in 2001
The TUC May Day March down The Headrow in May 2001. Photo: Bruce Rollinson
22. Leeds in 2001
Leeds United Academy player Aaron Lennon was chosen to play for England under-16s in November 2001. He boasted his own boot deal with Adidas. He is pictured at his school City of Leeds High. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
23. Leeds in 2001
The statue of Arthur Aaron, VC at the Eastgate Fountain in the city centre was unveiled in March 2001. Photo: Mel Hulme
24. Leeds in 2001
Spice girl Melanie B opened Chapeltown's Host Media Centre in October 2001. Photo: James Hardisty