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
19. Roundhay
An aerial view showing Devonshire Crescent and Sutherland Avenue. Devonshire Crescednt runs from the top left to the centre of the bottom edge. Sutherland Avenue comes in from the centre of the right edge to join Devonshire Crescent. The large building with pitched roof is Shaftesbury Motors Ltd at 74 Sutherland Avenue, with a row of garages fronting Devonshire Crescent. The original premises of Shaftesbury Motors Ltd. was in Devonshire Crescent and these can be see in the centre of the bottom right edge. in later years this became the Crescent Garage. The Telephone Exchange is visible in the top left-hand corner. Photo: Jamie Lee
20. Harehills
Children playing in the newly opened Banstead Park. Work commenced in the summer of 1983 on the former site of Banstead Grove and Harehills Terrace, streets of old red brick terraced housing. Leeds City Council had applied for a grant of £186,000 from the Inner City Programme to construct the park on the cleared site. It was to include two play areas with a range of modern play equipment, an area planted with wild flowers and grasses to attract bees and butterflies and a kickabout area. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
21. Chapeltown
Children playing on the recently installed swings in Potternewton Park. The swings were part of a scheme to improve the park which included other safe and modern play equipment. Other improvements included land drainage, renovations to the old tennis courts to provide three new ones, 2 basket-ball courts and a hard surface for 5-a-side football. The toal cost of the scheme was £51,000. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
22. Armley
A view from Armley Grove Place showing in the foreground a cleared area where terraced housing has recently been demolished and in the background further rows of housing which were due to be demolished. These are, from left, Fitzarthur Street, Fearnley Street, Gledhow Street and Simpson Street. Middle Cross Street runs across in front of them. Pictured in October 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
23. Hunslet
Looking across Meadow Lane from the site of the former Spread Eagle Yard towards a row of shops on the other side. The lower building on the left is Ascott Motors. These buildings have all since been demolished and the site is now occupied by Leeds City Office Park. Pictured in October 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
24. Beeston
Stratford Street from Bude Road, running along the left, showing a general store at no. 80 in an end terrace with a dormer window. Clovelly Terrace is behind. Rowland Road Working Mens' Club and Institute is in the background at the far end of Bude Road. Pictured in August 1983. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net