Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last twenty years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos to take you back to Leeds in 1999, a year which featured a victory for people power, new beginnings, celebrity visits and fond farewells. READ MORE: Leeds in 1980 | Leeds in 1992 | Leeds in 1993 | Leeds in 1994 | Leeds in 1996 | Leeds in 1998 | Leeds in 2000 | Leeds in 2001 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group
![This bundle of joy was the first new born of 1999 at Leeds General Infirmary. Baby Sam, pictured with mum Samantha Cooper, arrived weighing 7lbs 10ozs.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzNDQ4MDU3.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
1. January 1999
This bundle of joy was the first new born of 1999 at Leeds General Infirmary. Baby Sam, pictured with mum Samantha Cooper, arrived weighing 7lbs 10ozs. | jpimediaPhoto: Mike Cowling
![Leeds was left under a blanket of snow.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzNDQ4MDcx.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
![Parents and pupils at Cookridge Primary were celebrating after hearing the school has been saved from the threat of closure.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzNDQ4MDcz.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
3. January 1999
Parents and pupils at Cookridge Primary were celebrating after hearing the school has been saved from the threat of closure. | jpimediaPhoto: James Hardisty
![This new-style articulated 'bendy' bus arrived onto the streets of Leeds.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzNDQ4MDc2.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
4. January 1999
This new-style articulated 'bendy' bus arrived onto the streets of Leeds. | jpimediaPhoto: James Hardisty
![Spice Girls lookalikes 'Spice-ish' helped to launch the new GNER Fab4 ticket, a bargain rail fail return of 52 for up to four people travelling from West Yorkshire to London.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzNDQ4MDc4.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
5. January 1999
Spice Girls lookalikes 'Spice-ish' helped to launch the new GNER Fab4 ticket, a bargain rail fail return of 52 for up to four people travelling from West Yorkshire to London. | jpimediaPhoto: James Hardisty
![Firefighters clamber on to the roof of a house in Harehills from where a woman was rescued after a blaze.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzNDQ4MDg3.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
6. January 1999
Firefighters clamber on to the roof of a house in Harehills from where a woman was rescued after a blaze. | jpimediaPhoto: Steve Riding