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

25. Tingley
Looking north-west along Bradford Road in June 1983 from the junction with Fenton Street in the foreground. Next to this is a pair of shops, no. 31 Millan Stores, off licence, then no. 29 Mr. & Mrs. David Charles, hairdressers, who are having an extension built to the side. On the far right are the rears of houses which face onto Beech Street. On the left is Blackgates Infants School, which dates from 1894; this has since been demolished and a new Blackgates Primary School opened on Smithy Lane. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net

26. City centre
February storms brought an unexpected bonanza to shoppers in Kirkgate Market. More that 800 customers got the bargain of a lifetime when butcher Trevor Middleton, thinking his shops might be closed because of the damage to the market, cut his prices' to the bone" and gave away vegetables with the meat. Pictured is Trevor Middleton, right with some of his staff who helped sell the meat, from left, Carl Hilton, Brian Longbottom, Christopher Farmer, Roy Marsden, Colin Clark, Jackie Morgan and Graham Wray. Photo: YPN

27. Pudsey
Pudsey St. Lawrence, one of the clubs involved in a tense Bradford League championship race in July 1983. Pictured back row, from left, are Peter Graham, Lalchand Rajput, David Robertshaw, Tim Rukin, Mark Hobson, James Dracup. Front row, from left, are Ian Robertshaw, Mike Bailey, Colin Johnson (captain), Keith Smith, Russell Gaunt. Photo: Steve Riding

28. Ireland Wood
Women with plenty to smile about are members of the Leeds-based White Rosettes Ladies' Barbershop Chorus, who won a first-prize at Exeter in the championship organised by the Ladies Association of Babershop Singers. The chorus, which meets on Wednesdays at Ireland Wood (Leeds) Social Club, is made up of singers aged from 17 to 70, and was formed six years ago b y wives of the White Rose Men's Babershop Chorus. Pictured in October 1983. Photo: YPN

29. Moortown
Pupils and staff at Allerton Grange School took part in a sponsored run around the old Ridings of Yorkshire. It raised £6,000 to be shared with St. Gemma's Hospice and the School's mini bus fund Eighty pupils and thirty members of staff took part in the run with each runner completing about 11 miles. Pictured in November 1983. Photo: YPN

30. City centre
January 1983 and plans were unveiled to renovate White Cloth Hall on Kirkgate. Photo: YPN


