They chart a course to showcase life around the city in 1983, a year remembered for the BBC TV ending the Good Old Days at the City Varieties after three decades. It was also a 12 months which featured the closure of Leeds Maternity Hospital which had been the birthplace of generations of Leeds folk. The images are a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. They also run heritage blog The Secret Library Leeds, which provides a behind the scenes look at the Central Library and highlights from its special collections, including rare books hidden away in the stacks. READ MORE: 26 Leeds shops you visited during the 1980s from the city centre to the suburbs LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Bramley
Back Lane from the junction with Stanningley Road in February 1983. In the centre is Town End House, a Grade II listed building dating back to the late 18th century, which is numbered 9 Lower Town Street, this being the junction with Back Lane on the right. Photo: Leeds Department of Planning
14. Beeston
Looking across to Stratford Street from Bude Road, showing a corner shop at no. 80, which has a modern dormer window. Also in the picture are nos. 70 - 78 Stratford Street. There are people and a Ford Estate car outside the shop. To the left the dormer windows of nos. 7 and 9 Clovelly Row are visible. Pictured in August 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
15. Harehills
The corner of Roundhay Road and Harehills Lane, picturing pedestrians, a moving car and some traffic lights. The following shops can be seen: "Leeds and Holbeck Building Society", "Project" - selling records, cassettes and videos, and "Turnbulls Storage". Pictured in October 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
16. City centre
Albion Place with the YMCA building on the left. Eastwood tobacconists and Bentley Films Ltd. occupy shops on the ground floor. To the right is the junction with Albion Street and the tower block West Riding House, with shops including Dixon's and Curry's at ground level. Pictured in April 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
17. Headingley
Inside the new Headingley Library, which was sited in North Lane close to the junction with Otley Road and officially opened in March 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
18. Chapeltown and Harehills
An aerial view from Roseville Road, part of which is seen in the bottom left-hand corner. Roseville Works is visible at the bottom edge. The camera looks across an area densely populated with red brick streets. On the right, the large brick building with decorative gables is the former Kepler Council School which was later known as Roseville County Secondary School. It fronts Gledhow Road. Another school is visible towards the top left. It has two towers with pointed roofs and dutch-style gables. This is the former Gipton Board School, built in 1897, and fronting Harehills Road between Conway Street and Conway Mount. It became Harehills County Secondary School and the Harehills Middle School. The line of Harehills Lane runs horizontally along the top edge and Kershaw Works can be seen at number 200. This was the Rank Optics factory but at the time of this image it had been vacated and was about to be purchased by Leeds City Council. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net